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100 1 _aSandlin, Lee.
_9168108
245 1 0 _aStorm kings :
_bthe untold history of America's first tornado chasers /
_cLee Sandlin.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bPantheon Books,
_cc2013.
300 _axxv, 266 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
500 _aMap on lining papers.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aGhost 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.
520 _aA 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.
650 0 _aStorm chasers.
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650 0 _aTornadoes.
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942 _cBOOK
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