Title:
Reading the glass : a captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships
Author:
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
[New York] : Dutton, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780593185056
Abstract:
A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent thirty years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate.
Contents:
Davis strait -- The hourly -- First principles -- The cloud forest -- The serpent's coil -- God's roof -- The mother ship -- Volta do mar -- Safely out to sea -- A river of wind -- Clambakes of antiquity -- The ice drills -- HTHH -- Your career of choice -- In the month of farch.
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Genre:
Language:
English
