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Blizzard! : The Storm That Changed America

Blizzard! : The Storm That Changed America

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Blizzard! : The Storm That Changed America

by Murphy, Jim

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  • Hardcover
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Light jacket surface wear.
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0590673092
ISBN 13
9780590673099
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New York.: Scholastic Inc., 2000. 3rd printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Light jacket surface wear.. Gore, Leonid (Jacket art by).. 1 Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 136 p. Grayscale vintage photos, facsimile. Audience: Children/juvenile. Weather history: On March 12, 1888, snow began to fall from Virginia to Maine. Weather forecasting was far less sophisticated close to 1900, so no one knew "a howling white monster was about to strike". For 3 days and nights, hurricane force winds and unrelenting snow soon followed. Trains stopped, workers were stranded between home and work. Telephone and telegraph lines went dead. Drifting snow choked streets. The story is retold through the eyes and words of survivors.

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In March of 1888, two massive weather systems converged on the northeastern United States, bringing gale-force winds, heavy snows, and subzero weather, and catching a nation unaware. The ensuing blizzard killed hundreds of people. Drawing on extensive newspaper articles, histories of the period, and archived letters and journals, Murphy writes of the storm through the experiences of a number of individuals, personalizing the account with their triumphs and tragedies, as well as providing background covering the political and social conditions of the time. Archival photographs and original art from the period reinforce the historical setting. An explanatory chapter on sources and an index close the book. - Publisher.

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Bookseller
Hedgehog's Whimsey Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
Alibris.YNF0090009423
Title
Blizzard! : The Storm That Changed America
Author
Murphy, Jim
Illustrator
Gore, Leonid (Jacket art by).
Format/Binding
Hard cover
Book Condition
Used - Fine in very good dust jacket. Light jacket surface wear.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
3rd printing.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0590673092
ISBN 13
9780590673099
Publisher
Scholastic Inc.
Place of Publication
New York.
Date Published
2000
Keywords
Virginia to Maine
Bookseller catalogs
Youth Non-Fiction & Scouting;

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