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THE more violent manifestations of Nature are of relatively infrequent occurrence, and so come into one individual's experience only at long intervals. If, then, we had to rely on the experience of one man only we should have a very inadequate picture of these abnormal phenomena. The author of the book under review has read and summarized a very great mass of literature dealing with hurricanes, tornadoes, waterspouts, hail, snow, lightning, meteorites, earthquakes and volcanoes, and from this has produced a readable book, in which a chapter is devoted to each of the nine topics enumerated above. To describe the book as readable is not to say that the reader will wish to devour it in one sitting. The rather overwhelming phenomena described can only be regarded as suitable for absorption in fairly small doses.
The Elements Rage
By Frank W. Lane. Pp. xii + 188 + 47 plates. (London: Country Life, Ltd., 1945.) 10s. 6d. net.
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BRUNT, D. The Elements Rage. Nature 156, 703 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156703b0
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