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Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307473585)
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Lee Sandlin
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xWith 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.Author: Lee Sandlin
ISBN-10: 0307473589
ISBN-13: 9780307473585
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2014
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.11h x 5.19w x 0.69d
By Lee Sandlin
xLee Sandlin is the author of Wicked River, Storm Kings, and The Distancers. He was also an award-winning journalist, essayist, and book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal. Born in Wildwood, Illinois, he grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He died in 2014.
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