Isaac's Storm - The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung Galveston! Texas! 8 September 1900. It's another fine day in the Gulf according to Isaac Cline! chief observer of the new US Weather Bureau! but one day later! 6-10!000 people were dead! wiped out by the biggest storm the coast of America had ever witnessed.

Product details

• Authors: Erik Larson, Larson Erik
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780007292110
• ISBN: 978-0-00-729211-0
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Texas, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, NATURE / Natural Disasters, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Natural disasters, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, hurricane;1900;natural disasters