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Also by Erik Larson:

The Splendid and the Vile, March 2020
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Dead Wake, March 2015
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In the Garden of Beasts, May 2012
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Hotel Angeline, May 2011
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In the Garden of Beasts, May 2011
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Thunderstruck, November 2006
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The Devil in the White City, February 2004
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Isaac's Storm, July 2000
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ISAAC'S STORM
By: Erik Larson

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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CBS Sunday Morning - September 14, 2008
Talk of the Nation - December 13, 2005