A History Of Weather 



It will now open by examining the cirrus clouds that are now sweeping over this house into the next state
 

Every chapter will step backwards in time to illustrate the rain that fell on battlefields
 
The snow flurries of Victorian London will be surveyed

The long, overcast days of the Dark Ages

On the heat that shimmered in the deserts of the Bible

It will cover even the climate before the Flood when showers moistened Eden

When unseen clouds drifted over an unpeopled world

At the passing of enormous faces and animal shapes, his jacket bunched into a pillow, an open book on his chest