Isaacs Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

English

Series: Vintage Ser.

ISBN: 0375708278

EAN: 9780375708275

Category: History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)/Nature / Natural Disasters/Biography & Autobiography / General/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 07/10/2000

Synopsis: 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 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 Clines 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 mans heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful,Isaacs Stormis the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.

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Isaacs Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.71 inches

Width: 5.12 inches

Length: 7.99 inches

Weight: 8.01 oz

Pages: 336