Out of the Blue: A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival by John Friedman

Out of the Blue: A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival

John Friedman

304 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

informative slow-paced
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The odds of being hit by lightning each year are only about 1 in 750,000 in the U.S. And yet this rare phenomenon has inspired both fear and fascination for thousands of years.Herman Melville called it “God’s burning finger.” The ancient Romans fe...

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