Rain. A Natural and Cultural History - Softcover travelogue Riz Maslen (Neotropic)

Riz Maslen (Neotropic)

The extraordinary detail of the natural history he described has given us

Zürich und Berlin 2009

for the house was a semi-detached in a 1920s suburb at the mouth of the Thames

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Rain. A Natural and Cultural History - Softcover travelogue Riz Maslen (Neotropic)Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the worlds water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnetts Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together sciencethe true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish