Risultati di ricerca
Synopsis. The book opens with a restless Isaac Cline on the night of September 7, 1900, the eve of the 1900 Galveston hurricane 's landfall. Isaac, despite all of the meteorological signs saying otherwise, cannot shake the uneasy feeling that something is amiss.
Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson was a stunning and riveting account of the hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in 1900, causing untold devastation, destruction and death in its wake.
- (63,8K)
- Paperback
11 lug 2000 · 4.4 9,127 ratings. #1 Best Seller in Atmospheric Sciences. See all formats and editions. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City.
- Vintage
- $12.19
Isaac’s Storm. A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. At the turn of the last century, Isaac Cline, chief weatherman for Texas, believed no storm could do serious harm to the city of Galveston, a fast growing metropolis on the Gulf Coast destined for great things.
19 ott 2011 · 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...
About Isaac’s Storm. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from 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.”
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...
