18 Miles - The Epic Drama of the Atmosphere and Its Weather

Bloomsbury Sigma, London, 2019. Good secondhand copy.

A self-proclaimed connoisseur of weather, but also a poet, Christopher Dewdney describes our atmosphere and the weather that happens within it, from the turbulence that triggered life from primordial soup to the sunshine and warmth that contributed to the Summer of Love in 1967. Along the way he discusses the science of the atmosphere, the history of weather forecasting, historic storms, seasons, the Ice Ages and climate change.