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Author Toth, Susan Allen

Title Leaning into the wind : a memoir of Midwest weather / Susan Allen Toth
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 124 pages)
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?
Summary 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
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Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Climatology
Climatology -- Social aspects
Meteorology & Climatology.
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
SUBJECT Middle West -- Climate
Middle West -- Climate -- Social aspects
Subject Middle West
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003004030
ISBN 9780816695478
0816695474