![]() ![]() Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. It weaves together science-the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of colored rains-with the human story of our attempts to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. ![]() ith the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago w. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings, the top of the weather report, the source of all the world's water. It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Trade Paperback / Paperback) ![]()
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