Isaac’s Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900

by Erik Larson

4 of 5 stars 2 ratings • 0 reviews • 8 shelved
Book cover for Isaac’s Storm

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

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.

Isaac Cline was confident of his ability to predict the weather: he had new technology at his disposal, ‘perfect science’, and, like America itself, he was sure that he was in control of his world, that the new century would be the American century, that the future was man’s to command. And the coastal...

Read more
  • ISBN13 9780007292110
  • Publish Date 1 July 2008 (first published 24 August 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd