Storms, Floods and Sunshine

The author, a Texas Plowboy, after losing his wife in the terrible Galveston Hurricane of 1900, devoted the rest of life to mastering the storms that even today, continue to terrorize the citizens of the Gulf Coast. Rising through the ranks of the Army Signal Corps, he rose to be the principal meteorologist of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Along the way he also became a doctor and an artist. He wrote his masterpiece, "Tropical Cyclones" in 1926 fulfilling a bohood vow that he would one day write a book to benefit mankind. This volume in red cloth boards contains that work as well as Cline's Autobiography, "A Book of Memoirs". The book is also stuffed with epherema, Dr. Cline's obit from 1955, an article on Hurricanes from the NY Times of 1959, etc. The book is slightly cocked and very lightly soiled, there is some foxing on the pages holding the epherema. It is also inscribed by the author on the FEP dated 1952. This is a rare and important work in a variety of collecting categories, science, the South, Americana, meteorology, and Louisiana.