Bibliograph

Rain, a natural and cultural history, by Cynthia Barnett

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Rain, a natural and cultural history, by Cynthia Barnett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rain

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

890377468

Responsibility statement

by Cynthia Barnett

Sub title

a natural and cultural history

Summary

Cynthia Barnett's "Rain "begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science--the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains--with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. As climate change upends rai nfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world

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