6905 records matched your query       

Author:

Rappaport, Elliot, author.

Title:

Reading the glass : a captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships / Elliot Rappaport.

Publisher:

Dutton,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319).

Contents:

Davis strait -- The hourly -- First principles -- The cloud forest -- The serpent's coil -- God's roof -- The mother ship -- Volta do mar -- Safely out to sea -- A river of wind -- Clambakes of antiquity -- The ice drills -- HTHH -- Your career of choice -- In the month of farch.

Summary:

A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent thirty years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate.

ISBN:

0593185056
9780593185056

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1365395582

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

ELPC715 -- Paullina Public Library (Paullina)

XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)