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Tornado Hunter Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth

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ISBN-10: 1426203020

ISBN-13: 9781426203022

Edition: 2009

Authors: Tim Samaras, Stefan Bechtel, Greg Forbes

List price: $24.00
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Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and eruptions killing thousands, turning millions into refugees, and leaving whole cities in shocked, shattered ruins. Of nature's weapons, tornadoes are among the most unforgiving, and here's an unforgettable portrait of these storms and one extraordinary man who challenged them--and produced the first-ever photographs snatched from a rampaging twister's black heart. Tornado…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 5/19/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Tim Samaras, an electrical engineer and storm chaser for almost 20 years, is a highly touted National Geographic Grantee and the star of National Geographic Channel’sDisaster Lab(2009) andMaster of Disaster(2008). He holds the Guinness World Record for measuring the lowest pressure drop of a tornado. Stefan Bechtel is a member of Samaras’s tornado-hunting team. He is founding editor ofMen’s Health,and the author of seven books on conservation, health, and investment, which have sold more than two million copies and been translated into eight languages.

Greg Forbes is Lecturer in Greek and New Testament at the Bible College of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.