The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras

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In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. And when he finally met his match—in a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recorded—it upended everything he thought he knew.