Rains All the Time: A Connoisseur's History of Weather in the Pacific Northwest - Softcover

Laskin, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570610630 ISBN 13: 9781570610639

Publisher: Sasquatch Books, 1997

Synopsis

Here is the first social history of the weather in this notoriouslywet region--not just how damp it is, but what all of this extravagantweather does to the souls who have endured, cursed, and worshiped it.

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Review:

Everyone talks about the weather, but not like northwesterners. In Rains All the Time, however, it soon becomes clear that the pat image of a perpetually soggy Pacific Northwest is a gross oversimplification. David Laskin points out that, despite the time-honored Seattle and Portland tradition of rain-bashing, these two cities get less rain on average than New York City, and regions east of the Cascade mountains never get enough. Yet, regardless of actual precipitation, rain remains the region's symbol, its favorite joke, and reliable scapegoat. Laskin says that northwesterners are connoisseurs of weather, and deserve a book devoted to its historic, literary, biologic, and cultural impact. He delves into the climatic complexity of the region (from rain forest to desert), and the complexity of its denizens (from boasters to whiners). If you can't escape the wet, you might as well wallow in it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sasquatch Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1570610630
• ISBN 13: 9781570610639
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215