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Windswept is the story of humankind's long struggle to understand wind and weather--from the wind gods of ancient times to early discoveries of the dynamics of air movement to high-tech schemes to control hurricanes. Marq de Villiers is equally adept at explaining the science of wind as he is at presenting dramatic personal stories of encounters with gales and storms. We have made great strides in understanding how wind affects weather, but much is left to learn about how global warming and pollution may impact the winds themselves. The stakes are high because, as Hurricane Katrina so vividly reminded us, anything that affects the winds eventually affects human life.

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Praise for Windswept <br> Bad weather almost always makes good copy, and those who study wind and weather can be counted on to do all sorts of neat things, like flying planes into howling hurricanes, building massive wind tunnels and modeling the topography and breezes around the 11th green and 12th tee of Augusta National Golf Course. --Elizabeth Royte, New York Times Book Review <br> Windswept excels at tracking 2004's Hurricane Ivan, from its inconspicuous birth in the Sahara to its final furies weeks later. -- Washington Post <br> A refreshing narrative of meteorology and a different perspective on its history. --William Burroughs, New Scientist A lively, engaging treatise on wind and the weather it makes. --William Grimes, New York Times

Praise for Windswept <br> Bad weather almost always makes good copy, and those who study wind and weather can be counted on to do all sorts of neat things, like flying planes into howling hurricanes, building massive wind tunnels and modeling the topography and breezes around the 11th green and 12th tee of Augusta National Golf Course. --Elizabeth Royte, New York Times Book Review <br> <br> Windswept excels at tracking 2004's Hurricane Ivan, from its inconspicuous birth in the Sahara to its final furies weeks later. -- Washington Post <br> <br> A refreshing narrative of meteorology and a different perspective on its history. --William Burroughs, New Scientist A lively, engaging treatise on wind and the weather it makes. --William Grimes, New York Times

Praise for Windswept : <br> Bad weather almost always makes good copy, and those who study wind and weather can be counted on to do all sorts of neat things, like flying planes into howling hurricanes, building massive wind tunnels and modeling the topography and breezes around the 11th green and 12th tee of Augusta National Golf Course. --Elizabeth Royte, New York Times Book Review <br>&nbsp;<br> Windswept excels at tracking 2004's Hurricane Ivan, from its inconspicuous birth in the Sahara to its final furies weeks later. -- Washington Post <br>&nbsp;<br> A refreshing narrative of meteorology and a different perspective on its history. --William Burroughs, New Scientist &nbsp; A lively, engaging treatise on wind and the weather it makes. --William Grimes, New York Times

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Marq de Villiers is the author of Sahara: The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert, Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic, and several other books. De Villiers lives in Eagle Head, Nova Scotia.

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