Blame It on the Rain

副标题: How the Weather Has Changed History

ISBN: 9780060839826

出版社: Harper Paperbacks

出版年: 2006-08-01

页数: 336

定价: USD 13.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

An amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world. Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned by a powerful, inscrutable force of nature: the weather. In Blame It on the Rain , author Laura Lee explores the amazing and sometimes bizarre ways in which weather has influenced our history and helped to bring about sweeping cultural change. She also delights us with a plethora of fascinating weather-related facts (Did you know that more Britons die of sunburn every year than Australians?), while offering readers a hilarious overview of humankind's many absurd attempts to control the elements. If a weather-produced blight hadn't severely damaged French vineyards, there might never have been a California wine industry. . . . What weather phenomenon was responsible for the sound of the Stradivarius? If there had been a late autumn in Russia, Hitler could have won World War II. . . . Did weather play a part in Truman's victory over Dewey? Eye-opening, edifying, and totally unexpected, Blame It on the Rain is a fascinating appreciation of the destiny-altering vagaries of mother nature—and it's even more fun than watching the Weather Channel!

作者简介

命运掌握在自己手里，不过……还要天气同意才行。俄罗斯凭什麽打败拿破仑和希特勒？靠天气。史特拉第瓦里的小提琴凭什麽傲视群伦？靠天气。改变世界的法国大革命如何引爆？靠天气。要是孔明没有借到东风，还会有接下来的三国故事吗？要是1959年美国总统大选当天阳光普照，甘乃迪会当选为美国总统吗？要是法国的葡萄园不曾被天气破坏，还会有现今加州的葡萄酒业吗？全球暖化、气候剧变正威胁地球环境，天候成了众所瞩目的焦点，但天气现象绝对不是最近才开始对人类造成深远影响。本书细述人类历史被天气和气候改变的故事，精采万分，融合了知识、娱乐、惊奇等元素於一身。想知道天气如何插手人类事务，人类又用过哪些手段企图插手天气现象呢？55则闲话天气时最好用的话题，都在本书里面。

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