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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

By Erik Larson

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2000
ISBN
0375708278, 9780375708275
Open Library ID
OL13635299M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
364 kB (372241 bytes)
Edition
1ST
Pages
336\0
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

National BestsellerSeptember 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devestating personal tragedy.Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.

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