Book Excerpt: to the profession as the prevailing westerlies.Look up some day when wisps of clouds are floating very high. You will notice that their port is in the east, mattering not what wind may be blowing where you are. They are above the petty disturbances of the shallow surface winds. They follow a Gulf Stream of immeasurable grandeur. Onward, always onward, they sail, emblems of a great serenity.Beneath this vast drift of air, which increases in velocity as it nears the pole, is an undertow from two to three miles ...
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Book Excerpt: to the profession as the prevailing westerlies.Look up some day when wisps of clouds are floating very high. You will notice that their port is in the east, mattering not what wind may be blowing where you are. They are above the petty disturbances of the shallow surface winds. They follow a Gulf Stream of immeasurable grandeur. Onward, always onward, they sail, emblems of a great serenity.Beneath this vast drift of air, which increases in velocity as it nears the pole, is an undertow from two to three miles thick. It is the movements of this undertow that affect our lives. These movements are influenced by all the changes of temperature and by the configurations of land. They take the form of whirls. These whirls may be small eddies, local in effect, or vast cyclones with diameters of fifteen hundred miles. Small or large they roll along under the Westerlies, translated by friction, and invariably moving for most of their course in an easterly direction, like their tractor above. They circleRead More
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Seller's Description:
Good. 1915. 195 pages + advertisements. Illustrated with photographs. Flexible green cloth covers with black titling and decoration. Cloth shows mild scuffing and staining with a few creases throughout. Spine and binding sound. Interior lightly age toned, but otherwise clean.
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Good. Macmillan 1915 Printed in 1927. Light staining/tanning to light-green cloth with black lettering and decorations. Solid structure, Previous owner's stamp and sticker inside cover, Tight bright unmarked pages. 195 pages. Size: 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 x 5/8 inches. 7.7 oz.
