Gusts and Gales : a Book about Wind
Title | Gusts and Gales : a Book about Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Josepha Sherman |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2003-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781404800946 |
Explains what causes wind, the various kinds of wind, and describes hurricanes and tornadoes.
August Gale
Title | August Gale PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Walsh |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2013-01-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0762777095 |
An award-winning journalist’s voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there. In August Gale, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barbara Walsh—who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her career—faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home; the other, into a squall stirred by a man with many secrets: a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his death. Sixty-eight years after the hurricane that claimed several of her ancestors, Walsh searches for memories of the August gale and the grandfather who abandoned her dad as a young boy. Together, she and her father journey to Newfoundland to learn about the 1935 storm, and along the way her dad begins to talk about the man he cannot forgive. As she recreates the scenes of the violent hurricane and a small boy's tender past, she holds onto a hidden desire: to heal her father and redeem the grandfather she has never met.
Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | Commonwealth Shipping Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Shipping |
ISBN |
State and Evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005
Title | State and Evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005 PDF eBook |
Author | Rainer Feistel |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 2008-07-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0470283122 |
Based on a fifty-year study conducted by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, this book brings together a comprehensive summary of their observations and findings. Written by well-known experts, this revealing book concentrates on long-term changes in the Baltic Sea?which can be extrapolated to shed light on the environmental problems of other shelf seas, brackish seas, and large estuaries?thereby contributing to our understanding of water exchange processes, eutrophication, and climatic impacts at the forefront of international concern.
Parliamentary Papers
Title | Parliamentary Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Bills, Legislative |
ISBN |
The Beaufort Scale of Wind-force
Title | The Beaufort Scale of Wind-force PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Meteorological Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Winds |
ISBN |
Results of the Nautical Observations Collected and Discussed at the Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne, During the Years 1858-1862
Title | Results of the Nautical Observations Collected and Discussed at the Flagstaff Observatory, Melbourne, During the Years 1858-1862 PDF eBook |
Author | Melbourne (Vic.) Flagstaff Observatory |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | Marine meteorology |
ISBN |