Reading the Glass: A Sailor's Stories of Weather
Mar 2023 · Hachette UK
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'Brimming with knowledge and experience . . . delightful'
TRISTAN GOOLEY, DAILY TELEGRAPH
'A fabulous compendium of terror and disaster, expertise and courage'
ADAM NICOLSON, author of The Seabird's Cry
'Evokes panoramas of sea and land with confident flair'
WALL STREET JOURNAL
What's in a cloud? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather is the difference between life and death.
From the icy seas of Greenland to the turbulent waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, from the powerful squalls near the equator to the ancient Polynesian explorers who ventured eastward against trade winds, Reading the Glass combines science and memoir to reveal the remarkable story of how weather has shaped our oceans, our history and ourselves.
'An extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville . . . I can't recommend this book highly enough'
MARK VANHOENACKER, author of Skyfaring
'A gripping account of what weather is, how it feels to be in the middle of it, and what we can expect going forward!'
BILL MCKIBBEN, author of The End of Nature
TRISTAN GOOLEY, DAILY TELEGRAPH
'A fabulous compendium of terror and disaster, expertise and courage'
ADAM NICOLSON, author of The Seabird's Cry
'Evokes panoramas of sea and land with confident flair'
WALL STREET JOURNAL
What's in a cloud? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather is the difference between life and death.
From the icy seas of Greenland to the turbulent waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, from the powerful squalls near the equator to the ancient Polynesian explorers who ventured eastward against trade winds, Reading the Glass combines science and memoir to reveal the remarkable story of how weather has shaped our oceans, our history and ourselves.
'An extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville . . . I can't recommend this book highly enough'
MARK VANHOENACKER, author of Skyfaring
'A gripping account of what weather is, how it feels to be in the middle of it, and what we can expect going forward!'
BILL MCKIBBEN, author of The End of Nature
About the author
Elliot Rappaport has sailed as a captain in the United States maritime industry since 1992, involved primarily in the training of other mariners aboard an assortment of traditional sailing ships. Presently a faculty member at Maine Maritime Academy, preparing cadets for professional careers at sea, he has also worked extensively at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, an organization that offers shipboard programs in ocean science and leadership to college undergraduates. A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Maine, Elliot lives in coastal Maine when not at sea. Reading the Glass is his first book.
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