Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Vintage)
by Erik Larson | Outdoors & Nature | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0375708278 Global Overview for this book
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Picked this up from BookCloseouts.com, to put in my "Books about Things" bookbox. I read this several years ago, and really enjoyed it.
From the cover -
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.
From the cover -
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.
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maryzee
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maryzee at Books About Things Bookbox in Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, September 5, 2006
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Putting into my "Books about Things" bookbox.
Putting into my "Books about Things" bookbox.
Taken from "Books about things" book box. My husband might enjoy this one.
reserved for tenneh's virtual bookbox
Journal Entry 5 by 
elizardbreath
at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, March 21, 2007
elizardbreath at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, March 21, 2007
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Sending to tranq1.
Sending to tranq1.
Received by mail from elizardbreath for tenneh's Lucky 3's virtual book box.
Journal Entry 7 by tranq1 at Somewhere in the Caribean in Released on our sailing trip to the Caribean, -- Ports, Waterways & Ships -- Dominican Republic on Thursday, May 8, 2008
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