The Sailor's Wind (Paperback or Softback)

Walker, Stuart H.

ISBN 10: 0393338401 / ISBN 13: 9780393338409

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company 5/1/1998, 1998

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The Sailor's Wind 1.13.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-9780393338409

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Sailor's Wind (Paperback or Softback)
• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company 5/1/1998
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0393338401
• ISBN-13: 9780393338409
• Einband: Paperback or Softback
• Zustand: New
• Buchtyp: Book

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Inhaltsangabe

Stuart Walker's intelligent, straightforward explanation of why wind behaves as it does and what it is likely to do next draws upon his sixty-plus years of sailing experience and his vast knowledge of meteorology. The Sailor's Wind first describes each aspect of wind behavior in context―challenging readers to analyze wind flow as though they were experiencing it on the water―then explains what principles determined the wind's behavior, using recent meteorological research, instrumented observations, and studies of computer models. This book enables sailors not only to understand the wind but also to harness it.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stuart H. Walker is professor of pediatrics emeritus at the University of Maryland Medical School and an international dinghy champion. He was a member of the 1968 U.S. Olympic team and the 1979 U.S. Pan-American Team.