Isaac's Storm: The Drowning Of Galveston 8 September 1900 by Erik Larson

Isaac's Storm: The Drowning Of Galveston 8 September 1900

Erik Larson

336 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced

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National BestsellerSeptember 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...

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