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Bring Me Sunshine

Bring Me Sunshine A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, Snow-Capped Guide to Our Weather

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Publisher's Synopsis

We talk about the weather a lot. It exasperates, confounds and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather, but how much do we really know about it? In Bring Me Sunshine, Charlie Connelly sets off on the trail of our island obsession.

He breezes through the lives of meteorological eccentrics, geniuses, rainmakers and cloud-busters and brings vividly to life great weather events from history. He sheds light on Britain's weirdest wind, why we have the wettest place in England to thank for the trusty pencil, the debt that umbrella owners owe to Robinson Crusoe and why people once thought firing cannons at clouds was a great idea.

Having adventured round the shipping forecast areas for his bestselling Attention All Shipping, Connelly is the perfect guide through a mélange of gales, blizzards, mists, heatwaves and the occasional shower of fish. By turns informative, entertaining and hilarious, Bring Me Sunshine answers all your weather questions as well as helping you to distinguish your graupel from your petrichor.

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Abacus

Book information

ISBN: 9780349123738
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Abacus
Pub date:
DEWEY: 551.6941
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 234g
Height: 196mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 21mm