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Wrong Kind of Snow : The Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather by Robert Penn and Antony Woodward (2007, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHodder & Stoughton

ISBN-100340937874

ISBN-139780340937877

eBay Product ID (ePID)64185376

Product Key Features

Book TitleWrong Kind of Snow : the Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWeather, Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Europe / Great Britain / General

Publication Year2007

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Science, History

AuthorRobert Penn, Antony Woodward

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight25.5 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Reviews'It's this year's Eats, Shoots and Leaves, an entertaining gift book that will keep difficult uncles distracted for hours on Christmas Day', 'Chock-packed full of tales . . . if you're interested in the weather - and we all are - then this is a fascinating book', 'The idiosyncratic accumulation of strange weather-related factoids, quotes and anecdotes has bags of charm.', 'It's this year's Eats, Shoots and Leaves , an entertaining gift book that will keep difficult uncles distracted for hours on Christmas Day'

Dewey Decimal551.6941

SynopsisIt is a fact universally that the British are obsessed with the weather. This is not surprising - no country in the world has such unpredictable weather, with such power to ruin people's lives. 'The Wrong Kind of Snow' is the complete companion to this national phenomenon., From the publishers of The Cloudspotter's Guide and Watching the English â‚¬" the ultimate gift book on the nation's favourite topic of conversation., It is a fact universally acknowledged that the British are obsessed with the weather. This is not surprising - no country in the world has such unpredictable weather, with such power to rule people's lives. The Wrong Kind of Snow is the complete daily companion to this national phenomenon. From the Spanish Armada to the invention of the windscreen wiper, each of the 365 entries beautifully illustrates a day in the weird and wonderful history of the British and their weather. 31 January : The â‚¬~Big Freeze' of 1963brings the FA Cup competition to a halt: every football pitch in Britain is frozen: the third round takes 66 days to complete: the Pools Panel is formed as a result. 9 February : â‚¬~British Rail blames the Wrong Kind of Snow' â‚¬"Â it was aÂ journalist's phrase, but on this day in 1991 itÂ stuck to the beleagured BR like flesh to ice. 15 July : The exceptionally hot and steamy summer of 1858 caused the Great Stink of London,Â resulting in the building of London's sewage system, still in use today. On the same day in 1930, rainfall in Yorkshire is so heavy that the Whitby lifeboat makes a rescue two miles inland. 10 September : A violent storm â‚¬" rather than British sea power â‚¬" defeats the Spanish Armada in1588. Had the weather held and the fleet reached home, it would have been hailed as a Spanish triumph. Four centuries later, bad light and rain stop play at the Oval ... And more.

LC Classification NumberQC989