Storm Kings

The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Weather, History, Americas, United States, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Lee Sandlin ISBN: 9780307908162
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: March 5, 2013
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Lee Sandlin
ISBN: 9780307908162
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: March 5, 2013
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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.

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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.

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