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Isaac's Storm A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Isaac's Storm A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History Paperback - 2001

by Erik Larson; Isaac Monroe Cline


From the publisher

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage his home city of Galveston, Texas, was to him an absurd delusion, so he ignored unusual weather patterns, ominous signs, and warnings from Cuban meteorologists about an approaching storm. Within hours, at least 6,000 people would lose their lives in what is still the nation's deadliest natural disaster -- and Isaac Cline would suffer his own unbearable loss.

First line

THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT of Friday, September 7, 1900, Isaac Monroe Cline found himself waking to a persistent sense of something gone wrong.

Details

  • Title Isaac's Storm A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
  • Author Erik Larson; Isaac Monroe Cline
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st PB Ed. Thus
  • Publisher G. K. Hall & Company, Thorndike, ME
  • Date January 2001
  • ISBN 9780783889337