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A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Vintage
July 2000
336 pages
ISBN: 0375708278
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Non-Fiction
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 devestating 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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