num_pages: 380
description: On the morning of September 21, 1938, the coastline from Cape May to Cape Cod was the wealthiest and most populous in the world. By evening, it was a wasteland. Drawing on newspaper accounts, survivors' testimony, and archival sources, R. A. Scotti has written an unforgettable account of an ocean rising up to wreak total destruction on a way of life the world would never see again.
language: English
title: Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
titlecomplete: Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
genres: Historical, History, Survival, Adventure, Science, Nature, Science Nature, American History, Nonfiction, Environment
ratings_count: 2473
places: Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Long Island, New York, New Hampshire
publisher: Thorndike Press