| Authors: |
Sandlin, Lee
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Tornadoes
Storm chasers.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Pantheon Books, c2013. |
| Description: |
xxv, 266 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780307378521 0307378527 |
| Notes: |
Map on lining papers. |
| Contents: |
Introduction: Ghost riders -- Prologue: The pillar in the storm -- The thunder house -- The storm war -- Red wind and tornado green -- The mystery of severe storms -- Epilogue: The wild hunt. |
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| Summary: |
A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster--the supercell tornado--that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America. |