Publisher:  Avon Books, New York (1979)
  ISBN 10: 0380442302
305 pages -- Approx. size: 6.75" by 4.25"

Louise B. Young is an environmentalist and geophysical scientist. She is the author of numerous books, including Earth's Aura, The Unfinished Universe, Sowing the Wind, and The Blue Planet, which won the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award.

Center shows black and white photos.

Young starts off with the earliest scientific explorations of the atmosphere: the discovery of air pressure, the thinning and chilling of the air with increasing altitude, the discoveries of the various gases it comprises, and with the invention of ballooning, the investigations of the various layers (troposphere, tropopause, stratosphere, etc.).

Nice paperback in very good condition. Pictorial glossy covers with white title. Slightly bumped corners. Looks to be barely read, near fine.

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