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Recommended Weather History Books
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Alley, Richard B.: The Two-Mile Time Machine , Princeton University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0691004935 (HC), paperback edition (ISBN 0691102961) .
Blanchard, Duncan C.: The Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley , 1998, The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia, ISBN 0-939923-71-8, PB.
Barry, John M.:
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America , 1998, Touchstone Books, Simon and Schuster, New York, ISBN 0-684-81046-8, PB.
Branford, Marlene: Scanning The Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting , 2001, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, ISBN 0-8061-3302-3.
Brown, David G.: White Hurricane: The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 , 2001, McGraw Hill International Marine, ISBN 007138037X. HC
Caviedes, Cesar N. : El Niņo in History: Storming Through the Ages , 2001 (HC), University Press of Florida, ISBN 0813020999.
Cline, Isaac M.: Storms, Floods and Sunshine: An Autobiography , 1945 (reprint 2000), Pelican Publishing Company, ISBN 1-56554-766-7 (PB).
Drye, Willie: Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 , 2002, National Geographic Society; Washington DC, ISBN: 0792280105 (HC).
Fagan, Brian M.: The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization , 2003, Basic Books, New York, ISBN 0465022812, HC.
Fagan, Brian M.: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 , 2001, Basic Books, New York, ISBN 0465022715.
Fagan, Brian M.: Floods, Famines, and Emperors : El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations , 2000, Basic Books, New York, ISBN 0465011217.
Gribbin, John and Mary Gribbin: FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast , 2004, Yale University Press, New Haven CT, ISBN: 0300103611, 352pp (hc).
Hamblyn, Richard: The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies , 2001, Farrar Straus & Giroux; ISBN: 0374177155 (HC) . for paperback edition
Huler, Scott: Defining the Wind: the Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry , 2004, Crown Publishers, ISBN 1400048842 HC, 304 pages.
Junger, Sebastian: The Perfect Storm , 1998, Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 0-06-101351-X.
Keys, David: Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World , 2000, Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345408764.
Larson, Eric: Isaac's Storm , 1999, The Crown Publishing Group, ISBN 0-609-60233-0 HC, or paperback edition.
Laskin, David: The Children's Blizzard , 2004, HarperCollins, ISBN 0060520752 HC, 320 pages.
Laskin, David: Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather , 1996, Anchor Books, ISBN 0-385-46956-X.
Mergen, Bernard.: Snow in America , 1997, Smithsonian Institute Press; ISBN: 1-56098-381-7.
Monmonier, Mark:
Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict and Dramatize Weather 1999, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-53422-7.
Mykle, Robert:
Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928 2002, Cooper Square Press; ISBN: 081541207X (HC).
Provenzo,Eugene F., Jr and Asterie Baker Provenzo:
In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew 2002, University Press of Florida; ISBN: 0813025664 (HC).
Rousmaniere, John:
After the Storm: True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea , 2002, McGraw-Hill Trade; ISBN: 0071377956, (352 pp,HC).
Scotti, R.A.: Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 , 2003, Little, Brown; ISBN: 0316739111, (Hardcover: 288 pages).
Toomey, David M.: Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet , 2002, W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN: 0393020002 .
Williams, John M. and Duedall, Iver W.: Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms ,
2002, University Press of Florida, Gainesville FL, ISBN 0813024943 (pb).
Zebrowski, Ernest Jr and Judith A. Howard: Category 5: The Story of Camille Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane , 2005, ISBN 0472115251, Hardcover, 304 pages.
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