Divine Wind : : the History and Science of Hurricanes
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On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Kamikaze -- Anatomy of a meteorological monster -- Huracán -- The tropical hothouse -- Columbus's hurricane -- The tropical downpour -- France gives up La Floride, 1565 -- The trade winds -- The tempest -- Nature's steam engine -- The hurricanes of 1780 -- Hurricane intensity -- Galveston, 1900 -- Genesis -- Miami, 1926 -- Death and transfiguration -- Their eyes were watching God : San Felipe and the Okeechobee disaster of 1928 -- Taking aim : how hurricanes move -- The Labor Day hurricane of 1935 -- The storm surge -- The great New England hurricane of 1938 -- Waves -- Bull Halsey's typhoons -- Rain -- The hunters -- Hurricane Camille -- Into the maelstrom : a photo essay -- The great East Pakistan cyclone of November, 1970 -- Forecasting hurricanes -- Cyclone Tracy -- Hurricane Andrew, 1992 -- Hurricanes and climate.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: x, 285 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0195149416 :
SUBJECTS
Hurricanes -- History.