THE ELEMENT UNSEEN: SIMON WINCHESTER & CARL ZIMMER ON AIR & ITS MOVEMENT – NONFICTION

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The headlines are filled with news of hurricanes, tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires affecting America. And a report released in 2022 by atmospheric scientists at the University of Northern Illinois warned that winds are expected to steadily strengthen in the years ahead. In The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind, Simon Winchester explores how wind plays a part in our everyday lives. Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air – and thousands of living things. In Carl Zimmer’s Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, he takes readers on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and the history of its discovery, from the top of mountain glaciers to arsenals of airborne biological weapons. Air-Borne will leave readers looking at the world with new eyes.

Buy The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind – Winchester

Buy Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe – Zimmer