Scott Huler: 4 books
Defining the Wind
The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Nature, rightly questioned, never lies.” —A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, Third Edition, 1859
Scott Huler was working as a copy editor for a small publisher when he stumbled across the Beaufort Wind Scale in his Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. It was one of those moments of discovery...
No-Man's Lands
One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s...
A Delicious Country
Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of...
On the Grid
A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Turn on a switch and from the nearest bulb out pours light from... somewhere; turn on a faucet and water appears. Wires, pipes, and roads support the lives we lead, but the average person doesn't know where they go or even how they work. In On the Grid, Scott Huler takes the time to understand the...