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Isaac's storm, a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history, Erik Larson

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Isaac's storm, a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history, Erik Larson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Isaac's storm

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

780291676

Responsibility statement

Erik Larson

Sub title

a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history

Summary

September 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 by a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history-and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating 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. Thrilling, powerful, and unrelentingly suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the uncontrollable force of nature

Table Of Contents

Atlantic Ocean map -- Galveston map -- Beach: September 8, 1900 -- Law of storms -- Serpent's coil -- Spectacle -- Cataclysm -- Strange news -- Haunted -- Notes -- Sources

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