A combination of art and cultural history, from an uncategorisable and unique creative spirit, it will leave readers looking at the wind, the sun and the rain with new eyes.
Along the way, through interviews and research, she has unearthed curious stories of exploration, savagery and coincidence – stories which show us how weather has shaped humanity, intervened in the course of history, and how mankind, in turn, has tried to bend the weather to its ends.Ī book of exquisite beauty, with each illustration etched and coloured by hand, Thunder and Lightning informs, charms and transports. She has travelled from the frozen archipelagos of the Arctic Ocean to the ‘absolute desert’ of Atacoma, Chile, to show us the elements at their most extreme. Lauren Redniss’s latest, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future (Random House) takes a deep dive into human efforts to grapple with the elements, with forays into mythology. Her book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, won the 2016 PEN/E. In Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, Lauren Redniss tells. In Thunder and Lightning, Guggenheim fellow and Pulitzer nominee Lauren Redniss draws a new account of the weather.
This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. An Australian man wades into a lake as a wildfire consumed his town. Lauren Redniss has finally completed Thunder and Lightning: Weather Past, Present and Future (2017), another book in her own style that makes it so hard to categorize. In Thunder and Lightning, Guggenheim fellow and Pulitzer nominee Lauren Redniss draws a new account of the weather. Lauren Redniss is the author of several works of visual non-fiction and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. As Lauren Redniss writes in Thunder and Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, weather is the state of the atmosphere, whereas climate describes prevailing weather patterns on a larger. A howling wind, a thunderstorm, the beating sun – it’s with the elements that nature shows its true force and wonder. Lauren Redniss is the author of Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award and Century Girl: 100 years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies.
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