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.

Cold

Cold
Title Cold PDF eBook
Author Bill Streever
Publisher Hachette+ORM
Pages 287
Release 2009-07-02
Genre Nature
ISBN 0316052469

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From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to The Year Without Summer, Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold -- real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October while exploring hibernation habits in animals, from humans to wood frogs to bears. A scientist whose passion for cold runs red hot, Streever is a wondrous guide: he conjures woolly mammoth carcasses and the ice-age Clovis tribe from melting glaciers, and he evokes blizzards so wild readers may freeze -- limb by vicarious limb.

The Household Book of Poetry

The Household Book of Poetry
Title The Household Book of Poetry PDF eBook
Author Charles Anderson Dana
Publisher
Pages 882
Release 1873
Genre American poetry
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“The” Household Book of Poetry

“The” Household Book of Poetry
Title “The” Household Book of Poetry PDF eBook
Author Charles A. Dana
Publisher
Pages 898
Release 1880
Genre
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The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry

The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry
Title The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry PDF eBook
Author Henry Troth Coates
Publisher
Pages 1134
Release 1878
Genre American poetry
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