跳到内容
Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history
关闭预览资料

Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history

著者: Erik Larson; Isaac Monroe Cline
出版商: New York : Vintage Books, 2000.
版本/格式:   图书 : 传记 : 英语 : 1st Vintage Books ed查看所有的版本和格式
提要:
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  再读一些...
评估:

(尚未评估) 0 附有评论 - 争取成为第一个。

 

在图书馆查找

正在检索... 正在查找有这资料的图书馆...

详细书目

类型/形式: Biography
提及的人: Isaac Monroe Cline
材料类型: 传记
文件类型:
所有的著者/提供者: Erik Larson; Isaac Monroe Cline
ISBN: 0375708278 9780375708275
OCLC号码: 44989767
注意: Based on the diaries of Isaac Monroe Cline and on contemporary accounts.
描述: 323 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
内容: Atlantic Ocean map --
Galveston map --
Beach: September 8, 1900 --
Law of storms --
Serpent's coil --
Spectacle --
Cataclysm --
Strange news --
Haunted --
Notes --
Sources --
Index.
责任: Erik Larson.

摘要:

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.

评论

用户提供的评论
正在检索weRead中的评论...
正在获取GoodReads评论...
正在检索Amazon中的评论...

标签

争取是第一个!
确认申请

您可能已经申请过这份资料。如果还是想申请,请选确认。

关闭窗口

请登入WorldCat 

没有张号吗?很容易就可以 建立免费的账号.