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A carregar... Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999)por Erik Larson
   » 11 mais Disaster Books (15) Books Read in 2019 (153) Best books read in 2011 (138) Books Read in 2018 (1,926) Carole's List (173) Book Club 2018 (3) Books Set in Texas (13) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Fascinating read. (  ) 3CatMom | Dec 28, 2020 |  Hard to read at times but is very informative and well written. (  ) mariannedawnl | Aug 22, 2020 | An interesting scrupulously researched read, but in some ways less satisfying than other Larson books. He generally tells stories of events framed by personal stories of real people, but on this book I felt like the device did not work all that well. When the story returned to Isaac, it felt like I was suddenly reading another book. Also, Isaac (and Joseph, his brother,) just are not all that interesting, at least to me. I still enjoyed the book, learned a lot, and look forward to reading more Erik Larson. (  ) Narshkite | Jul 24, 2020 | As usual, this author delivers a non-fiction read just as smooth as the best novel. Larson focused on the U.S. Meteorology units and their total lack of recognizing the seriousness of the situation. There was a lot of political in-fighting and the greater good was ignored. Gruesome descriptions of those who fought for their lives and the lives of their children and then were swept away--Galveston, 1900. 336 pages 4 1/2 stars. (  ) Tess_W | Jul 2, 2020 | The storm of 1900 wiped out Galveston, killed more people than any other disaster of our nation. The irony is that the weather service had an aversion to telling the truth about approaching storms & completely failed to warn anyone about the coming hurricane and suppressed any attempts to let the public know that a hurricane was brewing. Now, a month after having read it, I make a few more notes. The thing that has most stuck in my mind about this book is that it caused estrangement of the two brothers for the rest of their lives. I wonder what it was that caused such a great divide. Perhaps the storm just accentuated the conflict that they already had & brought it to a crisis. ( ) bread2u | Jul 1, 2020 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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 by a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 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. Thrilling, powerful, and unrelentingly suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the uncontrollable force of nature. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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