Author: Diane Derome
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453529322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Cyclone 1878. The cyclone of 1878 was an actual hurricane that started in the Caribbean and raced all the way up to Lake Superior, taking over 22,000 lives in its wake. The facts of the hurricane remain cloudy, but this story is about the fictional island of St. Morantz and how the island faces the cyclone and overcomes adversity, changing the course of history and making their island paradise a new jewel of the Caribbean. This is a story of how one man changed the island and how his courage forced the wealthy plantation owners to end slavery in order to save their island in the cyclone's aftermath of destruction. This book is for 10 years old and up
Cyclone 1878
Author: Diane Derome
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453529322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Cyclone 1878. The cyclone of 1878 was an actual hurricane that started in the Caribbean and raced all the way up to Lake Superior, taking over 22,000 lives in its wake. The facts of the hurricane remain cloudy, but this story is about the fictional island of St. Morantz and how the island faces the cyclone and overcomes adversity, changing the course of history and making their island paradise a new jewel of the Caribbean. This is a story of how one man changed the island and how his courage forced the wealthy plantation owners to end slavery in order to save their island in the cyclone's aftermath of destruction. This book is for 10 years old and up
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453529322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Cyclone 1878. The cyclone of 1878 was an actual hurricane that started in the Caribbean and raced all the way up to Lake Superior, taking over 22,000 lives in its wake. The facts of the hurricane remain cloudy, but this story is about the fictional island of St. Morantz and how the island faces the cyclone and overcomes adversity, changing the course of history and making their island paradise a new jewel of the Caribbean. This is a story of how one man changed the island and how his courage forced the wealthy plantation owners to end slavery in order to save their island in the cyclone's aftermath of destruction. This book is for 10 years old and up
Cyclone Country
Author: Chrystopher J. Spicer
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476681562
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality. This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer's Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476681562
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality. This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer's Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.
The Thermal Theory of Cyclones
Author: Gisela Kutzbach
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1940033802
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Gisela Kutzbach has provided an unparalleled account of the mainstream of meteorological thought during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book takes us from the era of attempts to describe disturbances as mechanistic interactions of air currents, through Espy's introduction in the 1830's of the proposition that cyclones are convective systems driven by heat of condensation in central rainy areas, up to the distinctively different polar front theory of 1920, often considered as the birth of modern meteorology. Follies and controversies as well as successes are recounted, and in the tale the cast of characters, many of them acute observers or experimenters as well as theoreticians, and some crusty and dogmatic, are brought to life. The period was one in which basic concepts of thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and energy conversions emerged with parallel accommodations to the special needs of meteorology. Influences of the development of synoptic meteorology and early aerology are thoroughly treated, essential mathematical expositions are presented in their original forms with explications, and theories and analyses are illuminated by numerous well-chosen figures and quotations. Concise but complete, and written in a style easy to comprehend, the treatise is a lively account of a lively time in the development of science. Kutzbach has succeeded well in her objectives, to provide "an insight in the particular problems and methods of problem solving in nineteenth century meteorology" and to illustrate "that science is a human activity and that its development is an open-ended process involving the constant testing of hypotheses."
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1940033802
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Gisela Kutzbach has provided an unparalleled account of the mainstream of meteorological thought during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book takes us from the era of attempts to describe disturbances as mechanistic interactions of air currents, through Espy's introduction in the 1830's of the proposition that cyclones are convective systems driven by heat of condensation in central rainy areas, up to the distinctively different polar front theory of 1920, often considered as the birth of modern meteorology. Follies and controversies as well as successes are recounted, and in the tale the cast of characters, many of them acute observers or experimenters as well as theoreticians, and some crusty and dogmatic, are brought to life. The period was one in which basic concepts of thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and energy conversions emerged with parallel accommodations to the special needs of meteorology. Influences of the development of synoptic meteorology and early aerology are thoroughly treated, essential mathematical expositions are presented in their original forms with explications, and theories and analyses are illuminated by numerous well-chosen figures and quotations. Concise but complete, and written in a style easy to comprehend, the treatise is a lively account of a lively time in the development of science. Kutzbach has succeeded well in her objectives, to provide "an insight in the particular problems and methods of problem solving in nineteenth century meteorology" and to illustrate "that science is a human activity and that its development is an open-ended process involving the constant testing of hypotheses."
Tropical Cyclones of the North Atlantic Ocean, 1851-2006
Author: Colin McAdie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyclone tracks
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyclone tracks
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Report of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, to the Secretary of War
Author: United States. Army. Signal Corps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
A Story of the World and Its People for Our Little Juniors
Author: Mary H. Peabody
Publisher:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer Made to the Secretary of War for the Year ...
Author: United States. Army. Signal Corps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
The work covers military signaling and the weather service. The latter brand was transferred in 1890, to the Weather Bureau, organized under the Dept. of Agriculture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
The work covers military signaling and the weather service. The latter brand was transferred in 1890, to the Weather Bureau, organized under the Dept. of Agriculture.
The World's Progress
Author: George Palmer Putnam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of War
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
The Famines of the World: Past and Present ...
Author: Cornelius Walford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description