Blame It on the Rain

<p>An amazing enlightening and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world.</p><p>Throughout history great leaders have fallen the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned by a powerful inscrutable force of nature: the weather. In <em>Blame It on the Rain</em> author Laura Lee explores the amazing and sometimes bizarre ways in which weather has influenced our history and helped to bring about sweeping cultural change. She also delights us with a plethora of fascinating weather-related facts (Did you know that more Britons die of sunburn every year than Australians?) while offering readers a hilarious overview of humankind's many absurd attempts to control the elements.</p><ul><li><p>If a weather-produced blight hadn't severely damaged French vineyards there might never have been a California wine industry. . . .</p></li><li><p>What weather phenomenon was responsible for the sound of the Stradivarius?</p></li><li><p>If there had been a late autumn in Russia Hitler could have won World War II. . . .</p></li><li><p>Did weather play a part in Truman's victory over Dewey?</p></li></ul><p>Eye-opening edifying and totally unexpected <em>Blame It on the Rain</em> is a fascinating appreciation of the destiny-altering vagaries of mother nature&#8212and it's even more fun than watching the Weather Channel!</p>