num_pages: 323
description: 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.
language: English
title: Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
titlecomplete: Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
genres: Nature, Historical, History, Adult, American History, Biography, Science, Audiobook, Book Club, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 61052
places: Galveston, Texas
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: The Louis J. Battan Author's Award
category: Adult
publisher: Vintage Books USA