The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras / Brantley Hargrove.
Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.Description: 295 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781476796093
- 551.55/3 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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500 - 599 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | BIOG 551.553 HARG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001105080 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider.
In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed impossible, it was as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks. And when he finally met his match—in a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recorded—it upended everything he thought he knew.
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