The Man Who Caught the Storm
Автор:
Brantley HargroveЖанр:
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2020-08-15Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
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**"An instant classic of Americana --a story of tragedy, invention, lore, science, and a most original kind of genius." --Hampton Sides** **"Masterful. This is what man versus nature is all about." --Skip Hollandsworth** ***The Man Who Caught the Storm*** **is the saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring, and an extraordinary account of humanity's high-stakes race to understand nature's fiercest phenomenon.** At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science's every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider. In a...
