Reading the Glass
A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
[New York] : Dutton, [2023], ©2023.
Format: Book
Description: viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A sea captain's beautifully written tour of our planet, our oceans, and our ever-changing atmosphere"-- Provided by publisher
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.
Subjects:
Rappaport, Elliot.
Marine meteorology.
Weather.
Seafaring life.
Ship captains -- United States -- Biography.
Rappaport, Elliot.
Marine meteorology.
Weather.
Seafaring life.
Ship captains -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780593185056
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Weather Rap | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319).