Terrifying and inspiring, The Weather Makers is a page-turning epic that brings the most elusive and powerful of natural phenomena within our grasp. Internationally acclaimed writer, scientist and explorer, Tim Flannery takes us on a journey through history and around the globe as he describes the wondrous diversity of the world's ecosystems, and explains how the great aerial ocean' unites us. Along the way, we meet polar bears and golden toads, and travel from ocean depths to mountaintops, via desert, swamp and rainforest. Flannery reveals how the earth's climate has changed, across millennia and decades, and how the slightest imbalance has had far-reaching, unexpected consequences. The weather - everything from hurricanes to heatwaves - cannot be understood in isolation. With panoramic scope and limitless enthusiasm, Flannery shows how we have come to appreciate this history and contrasts our early primitive attempts at forecasting with our current knowledge of the forces that are shaping the future.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Allen Lane the Penguin Press
ISBN: 9780713999211
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 352
Tiempo de lectura:
7h 15m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 23/02/2006
Año de edición: 2006
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Tim Flannery
Emma Flannery es científica y escritora. Ha explorado cuevas, bosques y océanos en casi todos los continentes del mundo en busca de fósiles, plantas y animales esquivos. Sus investigaciones y textos divulgativos sobre geología, química y paleontología se han publicado en revistas científicas y libros infantiles.