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“Tornado-chasing Tim Samaras lived life on his own terms continually pushing parameters wherever he traveled searching for the next superstorm. In “The Man Who Caught the Storm”, Brantley Hargrove offers fast-paced insight into the mysteries of this meteorological phenomenon as well as the man obsessed with finding an explanation. When Samaras catches wind of a tornado forming by El Reno, Oklahoma, he realizes this is his opportunity of a lifetime. With son Paul and partner Carl Young in tow, Samaras speeds towards the subvortex determined to deploy sensor equipment in its deadly path. With devastating consequences. I highly recommend this heart-stopping narrative guaranteed to leave you in a wake of tears.”
— Kristin • McLean & Eakin Booksellers
The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider.
In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed impossible, it was as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks. And when he finally met his match—in a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recorded—it upended everything he thought he knew.
Brantley Hargrove delivers a “cinematically thrilling and scientifically wonky” (Outside) tale, chronicling the life of Tim Samaras in all its triumph and tragedy. Hargrove takes readers inside the thrill of the chase, the captivating science of tornadoes, and the remarkable character of a man who walked the line between life and death in pursuit of knowledge. The Man Who Caught the Storm is an “adrenaline rush of a tornado chase…Readers from all across the spectrum will enjoy this” (Library Journal, starred review) unforgettable exploration of obsession and the extremes of the natural world.
Brantley Hargrove is a journalist who has written for Wired, Popular Mechanics, and Texas Monthly. He’s gone inside the effort to reverse-engineer supertornadoes using supercomputers and has chased violent storms from the Great Plains down to the Texas coast. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Renee, and their two cats. The Man Who Caught the Storm is his first book.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Brantley Hargrove
Narrator:
Jacques Roy
ISBN:
9781508255352
Length:
8 hours 39 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:
April 3, 2018
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#32,366 Overall
Genre rank:
#649 in Environment & Nature