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Title Reading the glass : a captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships / Elliot Rappaport.
Author Rappaport, Elliot, author.
Publisher [New York] : Dutton, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Description viii, 323 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319).
Contents Davis Strait -- The hourly -- First principles -- The cloud forest -- The serpent's coil -- God's roof -- The mother ship -- Volta do mar -- Safely out to sea -- A river of wind -- Clambakes of antiquity -- The ice drills -- HTHH -- Your career of choice -- In the month of Farch.
Summary A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent thirty years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate.
Subject Rappaport, Elliot.
Seamanship.
Sailing.
Marine meteorology.
Weather.
Seafaring life.
Ship captains -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780593185056
0593185056