Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers /
Sandlin, Lee.
Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers / Lee Sandlin. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2013. - xxv, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Ghost riders -- The pillar in the storm -- The thunder house. The electricians ; A little more of the marvelous ; To treat Master Franklin -- The storm war. The so-called tornado ; The philosophy of storms ; Under the map ; One dead, one exhausted, one converted ; The finger of God -- Red wind and tornado green. The great American desert ; The night watch ; Premonitory symptoms ; Violent local storms ; How to escape ; The desert is no more ; The book of failure ; An awful commotion -- The mystery of severe storms. Canvas and cellophane ; The unfriendly sky ; Visible effects of the invisible -- The wild hunt.
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.
0307378527 9780307378521
2012027314
Storm chasers.
Tornadoes.
Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers / Lee Sandlin. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2013. - xxv, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Ghost riders -- The pillar in the storm -- The thunder house. The electricians ; A little more of the marvelous ; To treat Master Franklin -- The storm war. The so-called tornado ; The philosophy of storms ; Under the map ; One dead, one exhausted, one converted ; The finger of God -- Red wind and tornado green. The great American desert ; The night watch ; Premonitory symptoms ; Violent local storms ; How to escape ; The desert is no more ; The book of failure ; An awful commotion -- The mystery of severe storms. Canvas and cellophane ; The unfriendly sky ; Visible effects of the invisible -- The wild hunt.
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.
0307378527 9780307378521
2012027314
Storm chasers.
Tornadoes.