Wind
How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land

Deblieu takes us on quite a journey to introduce us to the movement of air. From the ancient spiritual to the modern meteorology, we find that the gaseous layer which surrounds us has immense power to make our lives interesting, and sometimes almost impossible, as we experience the wind through the......more

Parts of this book were really interesting to me: aeolian geography, animal migration and wind, and some of the old human stories related to the wind. Other parts really didn't hold my interest. Overall though, it's a great collection of many different aspects of something that everyone knows at lea......more

Hmm this was middle for me, and I actually think that if the author was not focusing most of the book on her home in the Outer Banks, NC, that I would not have been very interested (I come from NC so I knew the places she was talking about). This was written in the 90s but it didn't feel incredibly......more

I read this book for my bird club book club. I guess we were interested in how the wind affects migrating birds, but the book told us so much more about the wind. It was a fairly slow read but an interesting one. I enjoyed the chapters on storms, on the ways people have flown, insect migration, and......more

she tries for a mcfee/lopez kind of awe inspiring reflection on nature, but comes up a bit short. she discusses physical laws and the effects of wind on various cultures.......more