A History of the WindEveryone knows the winds touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls; at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. In this brilliantly original volume, A History of the Wind, Alain Corbin sets