Isaac's Storm: A Man a Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man a Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Author: Erik Larson
Desc: 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 devastating 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.