Name: Rain
ISBN: 9780804137096

Cynthia Barnett

A natural history of rain draws on myriad disciplines to trace the ocean-filling torrents from 4 billion years ago through the storms of the present world's climate change while sharing stories about humanity's efforts to control rain through science and magic.

A Natural and Cultural History

Rain

Nathan Griffin

Cool micro-history about rain that examines some of the science and natural factors that go into causing it (or not causing it), and also how human culture has responded to rain (or no rain) over it's existence. 

It did feel a little disjointed at times. I also wish the author had included a chapter dedicated to global warming instead of inserting it as an aside in so many places, which ended up feeling a little preach'y.

Millie Pellsäter

Weaving together science with the human human story of our ambition to control rain, Barnett tells the story of rain-- elemental, mysterious, precious, and destructive.

Rain A Natural and Cultural History

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