Leaning into the wind : a memoir of Midwest weather / Susan Allen Toth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toth, Susan Allen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle West--Climate.

Middle West.

Middle West--Climate--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leaning into the Wind is a series of ten intimate essays in which Susan Allen Toth, who has spent most of her life in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, reveals the ways in which weather has challenged and changed her perceptions about herself and the world around her. She describes her ever-growing awareness of and appreciation for how the weather marks the major milestones of her life.

Contents:

Contents; A Note to Other Midwesterners; Leaning into the Wind; The Weather Was Full of Promise; Other Weather, Other Places; Storms; Down in the Basement; A Window on the Weather; Weather Words; Things That Go Buzz in the Night; A Cold-Blooded Woman; Garden Weather; The Weather Doesn't Grow Old; Who Speaks in the Pillar of Cloud?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780816695478

0816695474

OCLC:

614486248