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Language: English
Published by Mariner Books, 1999
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- Title
- Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land
- Author
- Deblieu, Jan
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039595794X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395957943
Siroccos, Santa Anas, monsoons-the wind has as many names as moods. Few other forces have so universally shaped the earth and patterns of human exploration. Jan DeBlieu brings a poet's voice and a scientist's eye to Wind, showing how the collision of a few molecules can lead to the creation of religions, the discovery of continents, the destruction of empires.
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About the Author
Jan DeBlieu is the author of Hatteras Journal (1987) and Meant to Be Wild (1991), which was a Nature Book Club main selection and was chosen by the Library Journal as one of the three best natural history books of the year. She has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Audobon, and Orion, and her essay on the wind, "Onto the Dragon's Mouth," was featured in the inaugural volumn of American Nature Writing. She currently resides in Manteo, North California.
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