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Tales from the Torrid ZoneBOOKS/Nonfiction
; ...Herald Tribune 03-09-2007 Tales from the Torrid Zone Travels in the Deep Tropics By Alexander...question early on in ''Tales From the Torrid Zone'' as he wanders, in seven-league boots...memoir, part travelogue, ''Tales From the Torrid Zone'' is a pleasing grab bag of a book...
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Tales from the Torrid Zone.(Book Review)
; Tales from the Torrid Zone by Alexander Frater Picador, pb, pp380, 16.99 [pounds sterling...extensive personal and professional globetrotting, Tales from the Torrid Zone takes the reader on a journey through the remarkable lands that...
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READ THIS.(Life and Arts)
; TALES FROM THE TORRID ZONE Alexander Frater. Alfred A. Knopf. 384 pages. $25.95. It's the heat...Alexander Frater settles that question early on in Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics. The tropics also feature extreme weather...
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ATTRACTED TO THE TROPICS
; ...fled to them, and found a home there. For these, the "torrid zone" seems like a magnet; they may leave, or try to, but...savor its rich and ever surprising flavors. TALES FROM THE TORRID ZONE By Alexander Frater. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.95.
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A Torrid Zone on Mouse Chromosome 1 Containing a Cluster of Recombinational Hotspots
; ...sperm assays indicate that within this "torrid zone" the most active hotspot (A3) can initiate...Four of these are concentrated in a "torrid zone" of 100 kb. The lack of useful markers...the total to eight with five in the torrid zone. A similar clustering of hotspots has...
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The medieval antipodes. (geography, cosmology during the Middle Ages)
; ...torrid to support any form of life. This torrid zone was originally thought to comprise the...Equator. But the southern part of the torrid zone, at least, was considered impassable...hemisphere than to the northern. Beyond the torrid zone and the vast equatorial arm of the ocean...
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Theories of Rain.(Short Story)
; ...scraped-back hair may murmur in unison: Q. What is the climate of the Torrid Zone? A. It is very hot. Q. What is the climate of the Frigid Zone...is mild or moderate; the heat being not so great as in the Torrid Zone, nor the cold so severe as in the Frigid Zone. Aunt Daphne...
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The classification of climates from Pythagoras to Koeppen
; ...frigid) and stated that the central torrid zone was uninhabitable because of the heat...however, that the excessive heat in the torrid zone would prevent the exploration of this...to man, saying that the people in the torrid zone, as a consequence of the heat and lack...
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Movie Review: TORRID ZONE
; Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 01-01-1994 Movie Review: TORRID ZONE Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan Released: 1940 Star Rating (of 4): *** Director: William Keighley, Rated ? Cagney...
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Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue.(Book review)
; ...of St. Domingue is balanced by the island's location in the Torrid Zone, characterized by extreme heat and humidity. The medical demographics...proportions of white and black parentage. European Medicine in the Torrid Zone is the title of the second chapter, which examines the official...
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torrid zone
torrid zone General climatic term for the region between the northern and southern tropics, broadly the ‘equatorial’ zone.
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torrid zone
torrid zone General climatic name for the region between the northern and southern tropics, broadly the equatorial zone.
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torrid zone
tor·rid zone (also Tor·rid Zone ) • n. the hot central belt of the earth bounded by the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
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zone
...with Parmenides, who recognized a torrid zone (see tropics ) and north and south...zones are based on latitude: the torrid zone lies between 23 1/2 °N and 23...correspond roughly to the former torrid zone. Two humid climate groups of the...
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zone
zone / zōn / • n. 1. an area or stretch of land having...use, or subject to particular restrictions: a pedestrian zone. ∎ Geog. a well-defined region extending around...esp. between two parallels of latitude. See also frigid zone , temperate zone , torrid zone ...
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