Isaac’s Storm The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900
by Larson, Erik
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1857028414
- ISBN 13
- 9781857028416
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About This Item
London: Fourth Estate. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, gutter starting at title, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; First edition, first printing with full number line. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, pale blue endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. DJ design by Debbie Clement. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 400 pages; The true story of a terrible natural catastrophe. Early September 1900, reports of a storm in the Gulf of Mexico are relayed to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the new Weather Bureau. Normally storms stay out at sea and veer East to run parallel to the coast. This one didn't. On September 8th it hit Galveston, a severe hurricane with winds reaching one hundred and fifty miles per hour and a twenty foot storm surge wrecked the city whose highest point was only nine feet above sea level. Overnight between six and ten thousand people died, including Isaac Cline’s wife and unborn child. .
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- Title
- Isaac’s Storm The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900
- Author
- Larson, Erik
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1857028414
- ISBN 13
- 9781857028416
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
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