Sudden Sea
Subtitle: The Great Hurricane of 1938
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: September 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780316739115
Subjects: Hurricanes; Nature; Nature / Field Guide Books; Nature/Ecology; Natural Disasters; United States - 20th Century; Nature / Natural Disasters; Weather; 20th century; History; Northeastern States
First sentence: At the tail end of the bleakest summer in memory, weeks as gray as weathered shingles and drenching downpours, September 21 arrived in southern New England like a gift from the gods.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : Gone with the wind; title: A perfect day; title: The way it was; title: A shift in the wind; title: Hurricane watch; title: At sea; title: All aboard; title: A bright young man; title: Upside down, inside out; title: Battening the hatches; title: A one-hundred-year storm; title: How do you lose a hurricane?; title: The Long Island Express; title: Crossing the Sound; title: The Atlantic Ocean bound out of bed; title: The dangerous right semicircle; title: Providence; title: The tempest; title: Cast adrift; title: All quiet; title: The reckoning; title: The last of the old New England summers; title: Appendix : A nickel for your story