Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Written by Erik Larson
Narrated by Edward Herrmann
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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.
Erik Larson
Erik Larson is an author of two previous books, including the critically acclaimed ‘Lethal Passage’, about a boy and a gun. Currently an award-winning writer for ‘Time’ magazine, he formerly wrote features stories for the front page of the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and taught non-fiction writing at the Johns Hopkins Writers’ Seminars and San Francisco State University. He lives in Seattle.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 4/5 stars is not to belittle the eloquence of the writer, only to recall the grief and shame of humanity's wanton hubris that leaves me heartsick at the end. However, as in the "Devil in the White City, " Erik Larsen awakens the hope and inspiration in the reader that few media of any kind is able to as we are reminded of the unique ingenuity of the American Spirit and the amazing progress made by this country since its founding!