num_pages: 96
description: On August 29 2005 Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness heroism and courageand also of incompetence racism and criminality. Don Browns kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.
language: English
title: Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
publisher: Clarion Books