OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALES. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England.Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France...
The Winds that Stir is the mythopoeic story of a family's journey to a far away land called Himmel, where they can live free from worry and the mysterious winds that stir their youngest member Luousis.
With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul Of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds Of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy: Wind
What causes wind? Storms? Why are there powerful winds on a day when there are no clouds in the sky? Why do we get gentle winds some days, and blustery, annoying winds on another? According to Bill Nye, the sun's energy controls all the wind on Earth. In Bill Nye the Science Guy: Wind, he demonstrates how it all works, in a way that the average ten-year-old can readily understand. Hot air, cold air, and the spinning Earth work together to produce varying velocities of wind.
