Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future

Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future

From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means.

WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD â€¢Â NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYÂ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, KIRKUS REVIEWS,Â ANDÂ SHELF AWARENESS

Weather is the very air we breatheâ€”it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages.

This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisionsâ€”Do I need an umbrella today?â€”to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change.

Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning: the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the bookâ€™s typeface.

The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science.

Praise for Thunder & Lightning

â€œ[An] aesthetically charged and deeply researched account . . . a wild rainstorm of a book, pelting the reader with ideas and inspiration.â€â€”Nature

â€œA gorgeous and illuminating illustrated study of weather in all its tempestuous variety . . . Rednissâ€™s combo of fact, folklore, and vibrant etched copperplate prints enthralls.â€â€”O: The Oprah Magazine

â€œEerily beautiful . . . Contains plenty of scientific explanation (including more than a few nods toward global warming), but also far-flung personal stories that illuminate the beauty, wonder and chaos inherent in the elements.â€â€”The New York Times

â€œMagical . . . Redniss has . . . shown us how human beings live with natureâ€”fighting, coexisting, taming, predicting via leech barometer and radar and intuition.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œ[A] twenty-first-century genius . . . Redniss is inventing a new literary genre. . . . The reader willing to put herself fully in Rednissâ€™s hands will be rewarded with a delicious feeling of being enveloped by a phenomenon that eclipses the chiming trivialities of daily life.â€â€”Elle

â€œLends a graphic-novel-like allure to some of natureâ€™s most curious paradoxes.â€â€”Vogue

â€œRedniss is one of the most creative science writers of our timeâ€”her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot.â€â€”Rebecca Skloot

â€œRedniss combines her own dual punch of expressive art and impressive erudition to give an entirely new take on all that happens above our heads. This is an illuminated book that is also an illuminating one.â€â€”Adam Gopnik

â€œAÂ strange and wonderful thing, the work of a first-class mind that refuses to submit to any categories or precedent.â€â€”Dave Eggers

â€œBeautiful and totally original.â€â€”Elizabeth Kolbert
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 23810025
Color Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate 2015-10-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812993172

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	23810025
Color	Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate	2015-10-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812993172

Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future

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