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books:

Die Erfindung der Wolken.
Richard Hamblyn

Insel, Frankfurt, 2001

The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

15 reviews
Richard Hamblyn

Picador, 2002

Reading Atop Cloud Nine
Luke Howard was an amateur in the true sense of the word; Luke Howard named the clouds for the love of them. Richard Hamblyn does a fine job telling the story of Luke Howard's life, his naming of the clouds, and Howard's milieu in the book The Invention Of Clouds. Howard, a Quaker and a pharmacist, went from unknown working man to celebrity when he presented his paper "On The Modifications Of ...

The Cloud Book
Richard Hamblyn

David & Charles, 2008

This attractive and entertaining guide to the clouds, helps readers to identify every cloud type and related phenomena, and understand its implications for the weather. Unlike other books about clouds and weather, which can be very scientific and hard to understand, The Cloud Book follows a logical progression from low clouds to the high stratus clouds, and on to special clouds. The book also features a detailed introduction on the history of ...

L'invention des nuages : comment un meteorologue amateur a découvert le langage du ciel
Richard Hamblyn

Lattès, 2003

Die Erfindung der Wolken.
Richard Hamblyn

Suhrkamp Verlag KG, 2003

The Storm (Penguin Classics)

2 reviews
Daniel Defoe

Penguin Books Ltd, 2004

obscured by fiction
Until now Defoe's The Storm hasn't been in print as a single volume since the mid 19th century. The reason being that since the mid 19th century the public has preferred to see Defoe as a fictionist like Dickens, which has degraded the value of his Journal of the Plague Year and consigned The Storm to oblivion. These works form a pair, both being about national disasters of historic ...