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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
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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

Written by Erik Larson

Narrated by Edward Herrmann

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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.

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Release dateAug 24, 1999
ISBN9780739333082
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Erik Larson

A Seattle7Writers project for literacy, this novel was written by Kathleen Alcalá, Matthew Amster-Burton, Kit Bakke, Erica Bauermeister, Sean Beaudoin, Dave Boling, Deb Caletti, Carol Cassella, William Dietrich, Robert Dugoni, Kevin Emerson, Karen Finneyfrock, Clyde Ford, Jamie Ford, Elizabeth George, Mary Guterson, Maria Dahvana Headley, Teri Hein, Stephanie Kallos, Erik Larson, David Lasky, Stacey Levine, Frances McCue, Jarret Middleton, Peter Mountford, Kevin O'Brien, Julia Quinn, Nancy Rawles, Suzanne Selfors, Jennie Shortridge, Ed Skoog, Garth Stein, Greg Stump, Indu Sundaresan, Craig Welch and Susan Wiggs. Foreword by Nancy Pearl. Introduction by Garth Stein.

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    The 4/5 stars is not to belittle the eloquence of the writer, only to recall the grief and shame of humanity's wanton hubris that leaves me heartsick at the end. However, as in the "Devil in the White City, " Erik Larsen awakens the hope and inspiration in the reader that few media of any kind is able to as we are reminded of the unique ingenuity of the American Spirit and the amazing progress made by this country since its founding!