Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
[2000]
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| Edition: | First Vintage books edition. |
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| 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 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." -- |
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| Item Description: | Based on the diaries of Isaac Monroe Cline and on contemporary accounts. |
| Physical Description: | 323 pages : maps ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-313) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780375708275 0375708278 0613292715 9780613292719 0609602330 9780609602331 0329450786 0329602292 9780329450786 9780329602291 |