Snow : a history of the world's most fascinating flake

Snow : a history of the world's most fascinating flake / Anthony R. Wood.

Author/creator	Wood, Anthony R., 1948- author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2021]
Copyright Notice	©2021
Description	xii, 244 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Snow. Snow--United States. Snow--Forecasting.

Contents	First snows : colonial ambushes -- Snowmen : giants of snow research -- Pax nivalis : when snow was welcome -- Majestic silence : the storm that changed America -- Mighty streams : the co-conspirators of blizzards -- Of bombs and 'flakegate' : when forecasts fail -- Battle of the Titans : the rise of commercial weather -- Westward snow : the great white reservoir -- Making it : the art of man-made snow -- The vanishing : the future of snow.
Abstract	"The complete story of snow, this is the first book to fully examine snow as a historical, cultural, and scientific phenomenon"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Wood, Anthony R., 1948- Snow Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2019. 9781633885950
LCCN	2019014712
ISBN	9781633885943
ISBN	1633885941 (hardcover)
ISBN	(ebook)

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