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Ralph Alger Bagnold

Born

Plymouth (Stoke-Devonport), England, The United Kingdom

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Alger_Bagnold

Genre

Science, Exploration, Military

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Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS[1] OBE, (3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990) was the founder and first commander of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group during World War II. He is also generally considered to have been a pioneer of desert exploration, an acclaim earned for his activities during the 1930s. These included the first recorded east-west crossing of the Libyan Desert (1932). Bagnold was also a veteran of World War I. He laid the foundations for the research on sand transport by wind in his influential book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes (first published 1941; reprinted by Dover in 2005), which is still a main reference in the field. It has, for instance, been used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars. ...more

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Average rating: 4.35 · 166 ratings · 35 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World 4.41 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1935 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1971 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sand, Wind, and War: Memoirs of a Desert Explorer 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Physics of Sediment Transport by Wind and Water: A Collection of Hallmark Papers 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There was a glorious stillness after the vibration and rattle of the day. The silence was absolute. We were two hundred miles from Cairo, and there was nothing near by to make a sound. Outside in the open one listened expectantly for some small noise, a cricket chirping or a cock’s crow, but nothing came; only a little gust of cold dry air that eddied softly in the hollows of one’s ears. It seemed odd almost that the stars overhead, twinkling with a frosty vigour, could do so without making some sound about it.”
― R.A. Bagnold, Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World

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“It was a dead world upon which all life, all movement except that of the wind, had ceased from the far-off time when the primeval Medusa had looked out over the land and petrified it for ever.”
― R.A. Bagnold, Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World

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“One morning while we were out doing fieldwork we saw a mushroom cloud rising from the horizon. This was followed by an intense shock wave. The wind happened to be blowing in our direction, and a little later things began to arrive out of the sky—unwinding rolls of toilet paper, pieces of charts, and wood splinters; then came a naval officer’s sleeve with an arm still inside it. Later we learned that a fully laden minelayer, HMS Bulwark, in the Medway estuary and about to go to sea, had exploded in one tremendous detonation.”
― Ralph Alger Bagnold, Sand, Wind, and War: Memoirs of a Desert Explorer

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