Thomas Morris Longstreth (1886–1975)
Autore di The Scarlet Force: The Making of the Mounted Police
Sull'Autore
Opere di Thomas Morris Longstreth
Two rivers meet in Concord 4 copie
The Lake Superior Country 4 copie
Mac of Placid 3 copie
Elephant toast 1 copia
Dangerline 1 copia
Bull Session 1 copia
Jess 1 copia
That Williams Boy 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1886-02-17
- Data di morte
- 1975-12-21
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 34
- Utenti
- 192
- Popolarità
- #113,797
- Voto
- 2.7
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 15
Knocks a good many myths of the time on their head. Of course the author starts off explaining how the old folk wisdom (with a few exceptions) is codswallop, and then ends with his own set of rules which, apart from not being in traditional rhyming couplets, are probably not a great deal more accurate on a global scale. Of course he does mention that the old rhymes were developed in their own locales, and he himself is writing for his own.
But the best part is the light sense of humour woven through the book:
* "The conformation of the St. Lawrence region provides an irresistible attraction for American storms. [...] Give the ordinary cyclone its head, and, ten to one, you will find it on the way to the St. Lawrence. The inhabitants will confirm this statement, I am sure. They do not feel discriminated against in the matter of weather. They get nearly everything that is going. Since they have to accommodate from seventy to eighty cyclones in fifty-two weeks they have very little time to brood over any one variety [...]"
* "The first time you tell a New Englander that his easterly storms come from the west you are in danger"
* "The refrigerated, revivified air sweeping down from the north is tonic. [...] If we had arranged a process of refreshment like this at vast expense we should have been intensely proud of it. As it is we are intensely annoyed at it and occasionally a few people are frozen to death."… (altro)