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Storm Kings The Untold History of Americas First Tornado Chasers
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Lee Sandlin
Kenai Kathy
, June 07, 2013
A great history of tornadoes and the scientists who first studied them. Tornado season is here - those elusive storms that quickly appear and just as quickly disappear. Once thought to be just the stuff of stories, in the 1800's scientists started following and studying these storms. People had always told of "wind roads" where paths in forests were cleared by wind (now known to be the path of a tornado). There were (and still are) lots of theories about how tornadoes form, what's really in the center of a tornado, how to predict them and what to do to stay safe. I thought it was interesting that even 200 years ago, people knew the only safe place in a tornado was underground, and people had dug storm shelters or had basements. So why so much more destruction from tornadoes today? More people live where they form, old lessons on safety have been forgotten, and new technology allows us to track the storms better. The quest continues to understand the physics behind the storms. A very timely book to read!
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
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Corey Ford
Kenai Kathy
, April 08, 2012
A true life adventure story that rivals any fiction or "survivor" episodes. Based on the journals kept by the naturalist Georg Steller on Vitus Bering's ship, the book tells the incredible account of how a group of men sailed from Russia to Alaska. In addition to making new discoveries, they endured hardships beyond belief. These were a tough bunch of men - living in fox dens (after evicting the foxes) for a winter, then completely dismantling the ship that wrecked on the rocks in the Aleutian Islands and rebuilding a new one to sail home the following summer. Over half the crew died of scurvy (including Bering)and other maladies. They fought off foxes and other animals for food, and lived on what the sea brought them, including the now extinct Steller's sea cow. These men had true courage and a will to live. Bering and Steller got the glory, but the men who traveled with them had the guts!
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