Weatherland

Alexandra Harris's non-fiction book is a story of how the weather has been observed, noted, illustrated, and written about through a thousand years of history.

It illustrates how the importance of weather and landscape changed through time, and how that influenced the way in which the land and weather was recorded and written about – or not written about, as was the case for hundreds of years. People, towns, events were important enough to be recorded, either in fact or fiction; the landscape and the weather, not so much.

It's utterly absorbing, and will make you look at classics from… show more.