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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American historyfrom the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City
A gripping account fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true. The New York Times Book Review
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 peopleand Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating 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.
Author: Erik Larson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: 07/11/2000
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780375708275
Language: English
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