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The Wrong Kind of Snow: The Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather: How the Weather Made Britain - Hardcover

Woodward, Antony; Penn, Robert

 
9780340937877: The Wrong Kind of Snow: The Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather: How the Weather Made Britain
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0340937874 ISBN 13: 9780340937877
Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Rain gave us Inspector Morse and the sliding tackle. Fog gave us the Cat's Eye, Impressionism and chains on front doors. Wind brought a Protestant monarchy. Hail gave us the Norwich Union insurance company. Storms gave us the pencil, the lifeboat, the Norfolk Broads and the first weather forecast. And cold, grey days? Penicillin.
In Britain, what isn't affected by the weather? Since the first chilly Roman sat on Hadrian's Wall and pulled his socks on before his sandals (yes, they're the culprits), British life and British weather have been inseparable.
This is the story of a people forever caught out in the rain (or by the wrong kind of snow). But it's also the story of a country that knows how to appreciate a fine day. It's about an obsession with fresh air - and the thousands of ways we've devised to make the most of it. Because, beneath our restless skies, there's something only we know: in Britain, there's no such thing as a dull day.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Penn developed a passion for the weather while riding a bicycle around the word. This was reinforced during a year touring the Celtic Fringe as a poet, in bucketing Welsh rain (tywallt), Irish thunderstorms (speirling), and Scottish drizzle (smur) during a record wet summer writing his first book The Sky is Falling on Our Heads. A journalist, he writes regularly for all the national broadsheets.

Antony Woodward was first caught out by the British weather aged 0, when he was born in a Land Rover stuck in a snowdrift during the notorious winter of 1963. He's won many awards as an advertising copywriter and, since learning to fly - the subject of his first book, Propellerhead - most of his adult life has been spent waiting for fog to lift, the wind to shift or the skies to clear.

Both authors now live with their families - in dense cloud- in the Black Mountains, South Wales.

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Verlag
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0340937874
ISBN 13 
9780340937877
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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