Snow, Anthony R. Wood
Snow, Anthony R. Wood
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Snow
A History of the World's Most Fascinating Flake

Author: Anthony R. Wood

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/06/2021

Synopsis

The complete story of snow, this is the first book to fully examine snow as a historical, cultural, and scientific phenomenon. From "Winter Wonderland" to "Snowmageddon," we've had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful and fearsome manifestations delves into science, history, economics, and popular culture to examine snow's enduring hold on the imagination. Through profiles and anecdotes, the author discusses the reactions throughout history to snowfall. Snow, beautiful and magical, was sometimes considered one of nature's blessings. But then it was also a nuisance needing to be managed and moved, and worse, a terrifying, sometimes-crippling catastrophe to be battled. Blizzards and high-volume snowfall presented a serious obstacle to progress, travel, growth, and industry. Listeners will learn about the making and removing of snow, the psychology of winter, and the history of snow in literature, art, and popular culture. Despite sophisticated computer modeling, accurate forecasting is still a challenge. Finally, the book considers the impact of global warming on snowfall and the potential for causing a water crisis in the West and major losses in the winter recreation industry.

About Anthony R. Wood

In more than thirty years as a staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Anthony R. Wood has written on many and varied subjects, including taxes, coastal development, and the Gulf Stream. He is currently the policy and solutions editor at Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, and philly.com. His specialties, however, have been climate and weather. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times and won numerous awards, including a National Association of Science Writers award for a newspaper series and a Society of Professional Journalists award for environmental writing. He writes frequently about weather, and his weather columns have long been a popular philly.com feature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lawrence on July 03, 2021

SNOW: A History of the World’s Most Fascinating Flake by Anthony R. Wood. Prometheus Books, Guilford, CT. $24.95 Anthony R. Wood’s Snow is as much a philosophy of weather as a book about frozen precipitation that falls as hexagonal crystals, to paraphrase his description. But that part of Snow emerge......more

Goodreads review by John Eric Edinger on December 21, 2021

  Reading with great Interest. Keep  recalling the task of an elderly neighbor and me who shared a 450 ft acess drive to houses doing the snow blowing to remove the snow. We had a 3" rule -start the snow blowing;  we tried to not do it between 10pm and 6 am so not to wake the neighbors.  A couple of......more

Goodreads review by Genna on July 12, 2023

In the East, snow can be disruption, enchantment, beauty. In the arid West, snow is white gold. The essence of snow is part of the essence of life in the West. Snow is water in magnificent disguise. Much like other readers have expressed, this one was disappointing. The title is a definitely a misnom......more

Goodreads review by James on September 04, 2021

Mr. Wood's book makes me aware of the interesting lives of scientists, academics, and professionals who devote themselves to the study of snow. As a veteran reporter on weather at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mr. Wood knows just about everyone in the weather forecasting business. Reading this book a f......more

Goodreads review by Nikki on October 30, 2021

As it started to get chilly and I can feel that winter is approaching, this book caught my eye in the library and without hesitation I picked this up and sit in the corner and read. At first it is very interesting to know history of snow and the spirit of winter especially living in a cold state but......more

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