Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin
Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin
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Storm Kings
The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers

Author: Lee Sandlin

Narrator: Andrew Garman

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/12/2013


Synopsis

A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster -- the super cell tornado -- that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candy on March 19, 2013

The title of this book is misleading. This isn't a history of tornado chasers. More like a history of how we as a nation understand tornadoes. It is still a good read. Some of the chapters get bogged down in things that have nothing to do with tornadoes but other chapters like the fire tornado in Wi......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on July 06, 2024

Amazing. I was a week late in getting this one read for my twister podcast episode and that makes me so incredibly sad. This book was fantastic! One of my 2024 favorites for sure.......more

Goodreads review by Todd on April 06, 2013

I really wanted to like this book a lot more than I did as it combines two of my life-long passions- history and weather. There are interesting bits to the book, but they are buried by great, gigantic slow swaths of the book that brought this reader's interest to a grinding halt. I almost stopped rea......more