9781570610639

Book Description: Sasquatch Books, Seattle, 1997. Soft Cover. Book Condition: New. 1997 First. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 3/4 ". 1997 Softcover First . BRAND NEW from publisher . Never opened, Never owned , Never marked . Gift Giving quality . 216 pages with bibliography, index .The weather in the Northwest is fabled . Visitor's have written home about it for over 300 years, while residents have alternately cursed and celebrated it for even longer . Francis Drake encountered " nipping cold and stinking fogges " in June, while Lewis and Clark noted, " O! how horrible is the day " while they languished on the Oregon Coast . Now, David Laskin has probed the records of the discoverers and the pioneers, tapped the minds of the writers and the scientists, to compose the first social and meterological history of weather in the Pacific Northwest . and he has found a lot more than just rain . David Brewster, of the Seattle Weekly says of this book : " Everyone talks about the weather, especially in the Northwest . But few have bothered to master it, to trace its mystic cycles, and to discover how our intense weather has become our most precious mode of self-understanding . David Laskin has done the job, triumphantly. " . " Rains all the Time : A Connoisseur's History of Weather in the Pacific Northwest " by David Laskin . 1997 softcover book , published by Sasquatch Books, Seatlle, Washington *** Securely packed for Safe delivery ~ Shipping safely Worldwide, since 1965 ***. Bookseller Inventory # 6845

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