{"product_id":"rain-god-ian-james-frazer-9780645694109","title":"Rain God: The Highs and Lows of Clement Wragge, meteorologist with a mission","description":"\u003cp\u003eClement Wragge is sometimes remembered as the colourful and combative Australasian meteorologist whose use of people's names to nickname cyclones and storms in the 1890s caught on around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed at the height of his career as Australia's most famous man and also, derisively, as \"The Rain God\", \"Inclement\" Wragge set standards for a national weather service, pioneered long-range forecasting, and campaigned against massive land-clearing, fearing this assault on nature was reducing rainfall. Years later, after reinventing himself in New Zealand as a travelling science educator, he was feted by the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first full biography of Clement Wragge's rebellious and adventurous life - the strange story of a self-taught meteorologist from England's industrial Midlands, a 19th century scientist with 21st century anxieties. He trusted in physics perfected by a Creator and held profound fears for humanity, yet had an irrepressible faith in human ingenuity to overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian James Frazer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 064569410X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780645694109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silverbird Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d","brand":"Ian James Frazer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47039763284223,"sku":"9780645694109","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df30c344-4cab-4767-b062-fb98907da454.jpg?v=1752752491","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rain-god-ian-james-frazer-9780645694109","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}