Dr. Orman Granger is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley. His specialty is dynamic, physical and applied climatology, climate change and its impacts on the e...view moreDr. Orman Granger is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley. His specialty is dynamic, physical and applied climatology, climate change and its impacts on the environment and society. He is the author of many scientific publications and a book, Natural Hazards and social change. His research has covered time and space scales from moisture balance and surface processes, to ENSO phenomena and regional climate change, to millennial scale fluctuations and their impacts. He was born in Trinidad, West Indies and received his tertiary education in Canada. This book traces his life's struggles and triumphs over three quarters of a century.view less