About this title: In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantanamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet - a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy discovered new civilian arenas where pilots could test their courage and ...
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Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2003-06
ISBN-13:9780393324488ISBN:0393324486
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780393020007ISBN:0393020002
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Book is used and in like new condition will love CRT-6. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: NEW unread copy.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780393324488ISBN:0393324486
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. NEW unread copy with good clean, bright, tight pages. no ink markings. NO NAMES. NO UNDERLINING. NO TEARS. (slight shelf wear) Trade paperback (US). 314 pp. From Booklist Using the 1955 disappearance of a navy weather plane inside a hurricane as his reference point, Toomey roams about the presatellite history of research into the tempests. Knowledge about hurricanes was so rudimentary that determining their cyclonic structure was considered progress. From that ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780393020007ISBN:0393020002
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. text clean and tight, front endpg excised neatly. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780393020007ISBN:0393020002
Description: As New in As New jacket. Book and dustjacket are in as new conditon. Book has not been read. Contains 8 pages of black and white pictures. Not a remainder. Gift Giving Quality. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780393020007ISBN:0393020002
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. " The hurrican hunters and their fateful flight into hurricane Janet. " This is a black and blue hard cover book in very clean and attractive condition. The book is a First Edition (stated), and is also a First Printing. The condition of this book is Very Good+, and the jacket is Very Good. There are a few light bumps on the bottom edge, and that is about all. The binding is tight, and the spine is nice and straight. The jacket has wrinkles on the top of spine, ... read more
Edition: Stated 1st Edition, Ex-lib
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780393020007ISBN:0393020002
Description: Illustrated. Fine in Fine jacket. 6.5 x 9.5 hard cover book. Black lettering on the white dust jacket spine with a photo illustrated cover. Fifty years after Isaac's storm, a riveting story of the first hurricane hunters and the one crew who paid the ultimate price. 314 pages. Stated 1st Edition, Ex-library. Tight binding. Fine/Fine condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780393020007ISBN:0393020002
Description: Illustrated by B & W Photographs. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0393020002. In print for 15.95.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
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