The Hurricane Hunters: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Hurricane Hunters, credited to Ivan Ray Tannehill, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Hurricane Hunters by Ivan Ray Tannehill. Read in English by David Wales This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the lively account of the hair-raising experiences of the men who have probed by sea and air into the inner mysteries of the world’s most terrible storms…. Here is the first intimate revelation of what the human eye and the most modern radars see in the violent regions of the tropical vortex. The descriptions of the activities of these valiant scouts of the storms are taken from personal interviews with military flyers and weathermen who have risked their lives in the furious blasts in all parts of the hurricane. The author has made a special study of hurricanes for over forty years. He has served with the Weather Bureau as chief of the marine division, chief of all forecasting and reporting and assistant chief of the Bureau, in charge of its technical operations.” - Summary by Advertisement in the book and David Wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Hurricane Hunters
• Author credits: Ivan Ray Tannehill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 9:14:32

Catalogue topics

• weather
• meteorology
• hurricanes
• storms
• forecasting
• mid-twentieth century
• atlantic ocean
• meteorological aircraft

Track guide

1. 01 - Monsters Of The World Of Storms — 37:07
2. 02 - The Saddler's Apprentice — 26:19
3. 03 - At The Bottom Of The Sea — 25:48
4. 04 - Storm Warnings — 28:45
5. 05 - Radio Helps -- Then Hinders — 31:11
6. 06 - The Eye Of The Hurricane — 30:28
7. 07 - First Flight Into The Vortex — 25:57
8. 08 - The Hammer And The Highway — 28:43
9. 09 - Wings Against The Whirling Blasts — 31:42
10. 10 - Kappler's Hurricane — 36:33
11. 11 - Tricks Of The Trade — 36:22
12. 12 - Trailing The Terrible Typhoon — 37:20
13. 13 - Guest On A Hairy Hop — 33:23
14. 14 - The Unexpected — 46:14
15. 15 - Fighting Hail And Hurricanes — 25:19
16. 16 - Carol, Edna, Hazel Or Saxby! — 25:19
17. 17 - The Gears And Guts Of The Giant — 46:11
18. 18 - Biographical Sketch Of The Author — 1:51

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