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Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900
Isaac's Storm The Drowning of Galveston 8 September 1900 Author:Erik Larson The winds were mild; the skies were clear. On Friday, September 7th, 1900, most of the thirty seven thousand residents of Galveston were looking forward to a quiet weekend. Within two days, however, more than a fifth of them would be dead, and their city of splendid homes and broad clean streets, their city of oleanders and roses and palms ... more »would be swept away or reduced to rubble. In hardcover, Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm brought the devastating Galveston hurricane of 1900 to present consciousness. « less