Weather Eye EPUB
by Brendan McWilliams
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Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish Times, which over the years has described and evoked all aspects of that most perennial of subjects for exchange and conversation - the lingua franca of country - and townspersons everywhere.
Subjects encompassed include weather in history, weather in literature, weather in folklore, weather in mythology and weather in religion: auguries and forecasting; the science of meteorology; winds, rain, atmospheric pressure, cloud formations; macabre extremes; nomenclature; thoughts on snow, water, fog, dew, hail; thunder and lightning, rainbows and mirages; chroniclers and personalities (from Pepys to William Molyneux, Ben Franklin and Francis Beaufort, Mary Shelley and Percy French); lineaments of air and space; anomalies and optical phenomena; weathermen and weatherwomen.
Weather Eye is a fascinating and authoritative compendium which will interest the serious student and delight the general reader curious about the workings of the world.
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- Publisher:The Lilliput Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1994
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- ISBN:9781843513766
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:The Lilliput Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1994
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- ISBN:9781843513766