And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind

And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind
Title And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind PDF eBook
Author Bill Streever
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 278
Release 2016-07-26
Genre Science
ISBN 0316410586

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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Title The Rime of the Ancient Mariner PDF eBook
Author Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher
Pages 184
Release 1900
Genre Poetry
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In Oceans Deep

In Oceans Deep
Title In Oceans Deep PDF eBook
Author Bill Streever
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 273
Release 2019-07-02
Genre Science
ISBN 031655135X

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In this masterful account in the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier, a longtime deep-sea diver masterfully weaves together the science and history of Earth's last remaining frontier: the sea. In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach 300 feet on a single breath; engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity. Tracing both the little-known history and exciting future of how we travel and study the depths, Streever's captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are built for billionaire clients, and robots capable of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing access to the ocean. In this far-flung trip to the wild, night-dark place of shipwrecks, trapped submariners, oil wells, innovative technologies, and people willing to risk their lives while challenging the deep, we discover all the adventures our seas have to offer -- and why they are in such dire need of conservation.

Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose
Title Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 356
Release 1910
Genre English literature
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A Hand-book of English Literature

A Hand-book of English Literature
Title A Hand-book of English Literature PDF eBook
Author Francis Henry Underwood
Publisher
Pages 660
Release 1875
Genre American literature
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose
Title Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose PDF eBook
Author Alphonso Gerald Newcomer
Publisher
Pages 776
Release 1910
Genre English literature
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General Readers

A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General Readers
Title A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General Readers PDF eBook
Author Francis Henry Underwood
Publisher
Pages 664
Release 1871
Genre
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