I read this story of Galveston's 1900 hurricane several years ago, and really enjoyed it. Picked this copy up at a yard sale, and it will be going into my "Books about Things" bookbox when it comes back home.

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 susvivors, 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.

RELEASE NOTES:

"Books about Things" box is on the move again.

Chosen from MaryZee's Books About Things Bookbox. I had another copy of this awhile back but sent it off to someone else. Glad to have a chance to read it again.

RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing in a trade.