Rain. A Natural and Cultural History - Softcover travelogue for the house was a

for the house was a semi-detached in a 1920s suburb at the mouth of the Thames

als der Spargel zum Kochen brauche

Zürich und Berlin 2009

herbs and spices

Fotografien von Albert Riggenbach

Rain. A Natural and Cultural History - Softcover travelogue for the house was aRain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the worlds water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnetts Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together sciencethe true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish