And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind

And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780316410588
ISBN-13 : 0316410586
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind by : Bill Streever

A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWL4CM
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Rating : 4/5 (CM Downloads)

Synopsis The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by : Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Oceans Deep

In Oceans Deep
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780316551359
ISBN-13 : 031655135X
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis In Oceans Deep by : Bill Streever

In this masterful account in the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier, a longtime deep-sea diver masterfully weaves together the science and history of Earth's last remaining frontier: the sea. In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach 300 feet on a single breath; engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity. Tracing both the little-known history and exciting future of how we travel and study the depths, Streever's captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are built for billionaire clients, and robots capable of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing access to the ocean. In this far-flung trip to the wild, night-dark place of shipwrecks, trapped submariners, oil wells, innovative technologies, and people willing to risk their lives while challenging the deep, we discover all the adventures our seas have to offer -- and why they are in such dire need of conservation.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWKZUT
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Rating : 4/5 (UT Downloads)

Synopsis The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by : Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Rushing Mighty Wind (eBook)

A Rushing Mighty Wind (eBook)
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Publisher : Christian Art Publishers
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781432107918
ISBN-13 : 1432107917
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis A Rushing Mighty Wind (eBook) by : Angus Buchan

Inspired by the miraculous events of the 2012 Feast of Tabernacles in the En-Gedi Desert near Jerusalem, comes A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND by Angus Buchan. With sharp attention to detail Buchan fervently testifies how he, together with 4,500 believers, experienced the reality of the Holy Spirit – the tangible presence of God. He explains how this moving of the Holy Spirit is similar to what was experienced by the early church as described in Acts 2, and how it highlights numerous past revivals all throughout history. A RUSHING MIGHTY WIND is a stirring book that will remind readers that the Lord is not just a historical figure, but that He is alive and at work, and that He is with us – always.

The modern reader and speaker

The modern reader and speaker
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 556
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:600076071
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The modern reader and speaker by : David Charles Bell

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112000021409
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Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by : Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Hand-book of English Literature

A Hand-book of English Literature
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 660
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HNZNZM
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Rating : 4/5 (ZM Downloads)

Synopsis A Hand-book of English Literature by : Francis Henry Underwood