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Description - Rain God: The highs and lows of Clement Wragge, meteorologist with a mission by Ian James Frazer

Australia's first celebrity meteorologist Clement Wragge was a 19th Century gentleman scientist with 21st Century fears. In 1902, the Federation drought tipped him from orthodox meteorology into speculative sunspot-watching, long-range forecasting and rainmaking rocketry. Searching for answers, he campaigned against land clearing by ringbarking - which he believed worsened droughts. Rain God examines paradoxes in Wragge's life as an ambitious self-taught weatherman, itinerant science lecturer, ardent Theosophist and devotee of seances. An idealist, his life, both public and private, was messy - balanced between the tangibles of having been born British and wealthy against the intangibles of finding his true identity and purpose.

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