The story of the British and their weather / Patrick Nobbs.

Author
Nobbs, Patrick [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Stroud : Amberley, 2015.
Description
314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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    "The extraordinary tale of Britain's weather and our relationship with it across the ages is told in this book. Recounting the greatest weather stories from the distant to the most recent past, it reveals a surprisingly frightening picture. Recent history alone includes a devastating tidal surge in 1953 that killed thousands around the North Sea coasts; bitter winter weather in 1947 and 1962/63 paralysed Britain economically, as did the dramatic water shortages caused by the 1975-76 drought. Whole communities have been wiped out in hours by devastating floods, while tornadoes, blizzards, gales, lightning and smog have all repeatedly caused death on a wide scale, even in the heart of London. And just as Icelandic volcanoes have shown more recently how ash can disrupt modern aircraft, so too have volcanoes influenced our weather catastrophically in the past, at one time sinking Napoleonic guns and shaping European politics, and at another almost ending humanity in its infancy."--Book jacket.
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    Subtitle on book jacket
    • From frost fairs to Indian summers
    ISBN
    • 9781445644523 ((hbk.))
    • 1445644525 ((hbk.))
    LCCN
    2015490658
    OCLC
    896906235
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