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

The Resource Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
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Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
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a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
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Erik Larson
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eng
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
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
TEFOD
Dewey number
976.4139
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maps
Index
no index present
LC call number
F394.G2
LC item number
L37 2000b
Literary form
non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography

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