| Scott Huler is the author of On Being Brown and A Little Bit Sideways: One Week Inside a NASCAR Winston Cup Race Team. His work is heard regularly on National Public Radio. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. |
| INTRODUCTION September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and Before CHAPTER 1. Beaufort of the Admiralty 11 CHAPTER 2. In Search of the Wind 43 CHAPTER 3. The Beaufort Scale, and Who Wrote It, in a General Way 69 CHAPTER 4. Reverse-Engineering the Wind 93 CHAPTER 5. "Nature, Rightly Questioned, Never Lies!': The Beaufort Scale, Nineteenth-Century Science, and the Last Eighteenth-Century Man 121 CHAPTER 6. Getting the Word Out: On the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the Dictionary, and How Sir Francis Beaufort Slept with His Sister 151 CHAPTER 7. Taking the Measure of the Wind: The Fabulous Beaufortometer 184 CHAPTER 8. A Picture of the Wind: Poetry, the Shipping Forecast, and the Search for the North Shields Observer CHAPTER 9. Observation, a Panegyric: On the Beaufort Moment APPENDIX A. Beaufort Scale Family Album APPENDIX B. Explanation of the Plate Describing the Rigging, &c., of a First-Rate Man of War A NOTE ON THE SOURCES PRIMARY SOURCES CONSULTED NOTE ON ACCURACY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX |
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