Bibliograph

Snow, a history of the world's most fascinating flake, Anthony R. Wood

Type

Label

Snow, a history of the world's most fascinating flake, Anthony R. Wood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Snow

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1085591440

Responsibility statement

Anthony R. Wood

Sub title

a history of the world's most fascinating flake

Summary

"The complete story of snow, this is the first book to fully examine snow as a historical, cultural, and scientific phenomenon"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

First snows : colonial ambushes -- Snowmen : giants of snow research -- Pax nivalis : when snow was welcome -- Majestic silence : the storm that changed America -- Mighty streams : the co-conspirators of blizzards -- Of bombs and 'flakegate' : when forecasts fail -- Battle of the Titans : the rise of commercial weather -- Westward snow : the great white reservoir -- Making it : the art of man-made snow -- The vanishing : the future of snow

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