Wave of Destruction
Subtitle: The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami
Publisher: Rodale Books
Published: December 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781594863783
Subjects: Ocean Floor; Nam Keam; History; History - General History; Tsunamis; History: World; Thailand; Natural Disasters; Asia - India & South Asia; History / India; Indian Ocean; Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
First sentence: Two thousand five hundred and fifteen years after the birth of Buddha, in the Christian year of 1972, sixteen-year-old Thana Phondaecha bumped and jostled in the back of a bus making its way south along the dirt highway skirting the west coast of the Isthmus of Kra.