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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
$13.53 - Save $2.42 (15%) - RRP $15.95 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Isaac's StormNow in paperback comes this bestselling narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 dead in its wake. An unforgettable story of the conflict between human hubris and the last great uncontrollable force, "Isaac's Storm" offers a cautionary tale for the millennium.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books USA
- Published: 01 August 2000
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Meteorology & Climatology | Natural Disasters | History Of The Americas | Weather
- ISBN 13: 9780375708275 ISBN 10: 0375708278
- Sales rank: 69,763
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Full description for Isaac's Storm
National Bestseller 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 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devestating 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. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.
