Rain God - Paperback
Australia’s first celebrity meteorologist Clement Wragge was a 19 th Century gentleman
scientist with 21 st 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. He also advocated revegetation and water
conservation schemes. Rain God examines paradoxes in Wragge’s life as an ambitious self-
taught weatherman, itinerant science lecturer, ardent Theosophist and devotee of séances.
Australia’s first celebrity meteorologist Clement Wragge was a 19 th Century gentleman
scientist with 21 st 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. He also advocated revegetation and water
conservation schemes. Rain God examines paradoxes in Wragge’s life as an ambitious self-
taught weatherman, itinerant science lecturer, ardent Theosophist and devotee of séances.
Australia’s first celebrity meteorologist Clement Wragge was a 19 th Century gentleman
scientist with 21 st 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. He also advocated revegetation and water
conservation schemes. Rain God examines paradoxes in Wragge’s life as an ambitious self-
taught weatherman, itinerant science lecturer, ardent Theosophist and devotee of séances.