Isaac’s Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900

Author:   Erik Larson
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
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9780007292110


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Isaac’s Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900


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Galveston, Texas, 8 September 1900. It’s another fine day in the Gulf according to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the new US Weather Bureau, but one day later, 6-10,000 people were dead, wiped out by the biggest storm the coast of America had ever witnessed. Isaac Cline was confident of his ability to predict the weather: he had new technology at his disposal, ‘perfect science’, and, like America itself, he was sure that he was in control of his world, that the new century would be the American century, that the future was man’s to command. And the coastal city of Galveston was a prosperous, enthusiastic place – a jewel of progress and contentment, a model for the new century. The storm blew up in Cuba. It was, in modern jargon, an X-storm – an extreme hurricane – and it did not circle around the Gulf of Mexicao as storms routinely did. On 8 September 1900 it ploughed straight into Galveston. It was the meteorological equivalent of the Big One. It was to be the worst natural disaster ever to befall America to this day: between six and ten thousand people died, including Isaac Cline’s wife and unborn child. With them died Cline’s and America’s hubris: the storm had simply blown them away. Told with a novelist’s skill this is the true story of an awful and terrible natural catastrophe.

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Author:   Erik Larson
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:   Fourth Estate Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.125kg
ISBN:  

9780007292110


ISBN 10:   0007292112
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 July 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Gripping, informative and imaginative' New Statesman 'Roof slates became spinning blades... a timely and chillingly detailed reminder of what nature can do.' Mail on Sunday 'Mixing individual narratives of the townsfolk and a history of the Weather Bureau with terrific descriptions the evolving storm, Larson cooks up an awesome tale.' Daily Telegraph 'Dickensian... A scholarly and factual book that reads like fiction.' Independent


Gripping, informative and imaginative' New Statesman 'Roof slates became spinning blades... a timely and chillingly detailed reminder of what nature can do.' Mail on Sunday 'Mixing individual narratives of the townsfolk and a history of the Weather Bureau with terrific descriptions the evolving storm, Larson cooks up an awesome tale.' Daily Telegraph 'Dickensian... A scholarly and factual book that reads like fiction.' Independent


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Erik Larson is a writer, journalist and novelist. Nominated for a Pulitzer prize for investigative journalism on The Wall Street Journal, he has taught non-fiction writing at San francisco State and Johns Hopkins.

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