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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784114103321

Autore

Toth Susan Allen

Titolo

Leaning into the wind [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir of Midwest weather / / Susan Allen Toth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9547-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Disciplina

551.6977

Soggetti

Middle West Climate

Middle West Climate Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Note to Other Midwesterners; Leaning into the Wind; The Weather Was Full of Promise; Other Weather, Other Places; Storms; Down in the Basement; A Window on the Weather; Weather Words; Things That Go Buzz in the Night; A Cold-Blooded Woman; Garden Weather; The Weather Doesn't Grow Old; Who Speaks in the Pillar of Cloud?

Sommario/riassunto

Leaning into the Wind is a series of ten intimate essays in which Susan Allen Toth, who has spent most of her life in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, reveals the ways in which weather has challenged and changed her perceptions about herself and the world around her. She describes her ever-growing awareness of and appreciation for how the weather marks the major milestones of her life.