Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

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Cynthia Barnett
Cynthia Barnett
2015 • 355 pages

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Weaving together science with the human human story of our ambition to control rain, Barnett tells the story of rain -- elemental, mysterious, precious, and destructive.

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