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Title Statement | Reading the glass: a captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships / Elliot Rappaport. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships |
Author | Rappaport, Elliot |
Publication | New York: Dutton,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | viii, 323 pages |
ISBN | 9780593185056 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr06826526 |
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. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319). |
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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Marine meteorology |
Ship captains--Biography--United States | |
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By Name | Rappaport, Elliot |
By Genre | Biographies |
Personal narratives |