Review: The Breath of the Gods

Review of The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind by Simon Winchester

How can there be hundreds of pages about wind?

That was my initial reaction when seeing “The Breath of the Gods: the history and future of the wind” in a bookstore; the initial skepticism went out the window some microseconds later when I saw it was written by Simon Winchester, whose earlier works I have been a big fan of, so I picked it up without a sec…