Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole

A Nature Top Ten Book of the Year: "Immensely readable" accounts of seven pioneers who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science (New York Review of Books).

One of Booklist's Top Ten Sci-Tech Books of the Year

From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a...