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Snow: The science and the stories behind nature's greatest wonder - Softcover

Whittell, Giles

 
9781780724072: Snow: The science and the stories behind nature's greatest wonder
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1780724071 ISBN 13: 9781780724072
Verlag: Short Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

**The Financial Times' Travel Book of the Year 2018** How many snowflakes does it take to build a snowman?
Where is the snowiest place on Earth?
When will the last snowflake fall?
Snow has a lot in common with religion.

It comes from heaven. It changes everything. It creates an alternative reality and brings on irrational behaviour in humans. But unlike most religions, snow has never had a bible, until now.

Giles Whittell, a passionate snow enthusiast, takes the reader on a quest through centuries and continents to reveal the wonders of snow. Along the way he uncovers the mysteries of snow crystal morphology, why avalanches happen, how snow saved a British prime minister's life, and the terrifying truth about the opening ceremony of the 1960 winter Olympics.

The Secret Life of Snow is the next best thing to a white Christmas, an anthropology and travelogue for everyone from ski addicts to the millions of people who have never even seen it.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Giles Whittell is chief leader writer for The Times, and was previously the paper's correspondent in Los Angeles, Moscow and Washington. He has written five previous books - Bridge of Spies, Spitfire Women of World War II, Extreme Continental, Central Asia and Lambada County. He lives with his wife, Karen Stirgwolt, and three sons in south London.

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Verlag
Short Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1780724071
ISBN 13 
9781780724072
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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