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Sudden sea : the Great Hurricane of 1938
Published by Little, Brown and Co., Boston
ISBN 0316739111
Bib Id 849349
Copyright 2003
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 279 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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01848cam a2200349Ia 4500
LCCN
2003-46093
ISBN
0316739111 (hbk.) : $24.95
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363.3492 S
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Sudden sea : the Great Hurricane of 1938
Varying Form of Title
Great Hurricane of 1938
Edition
1st ed.
Copyright Date
2003
Description
viii, 279 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Gone with the Wind -- A Perfect Day -- The Way It Was -- A Shift in the Wind -- Hurricane Watch -- At Sea -- All Aboard -- A Bright Young Man -- Upside Down, Inside Out -- Battening the Hatches -- A One-Hundred-Year Storm -- How Do You Lose a Hurricane? -- The Long Island Express -- Crossing the Sound -- The Atlantic Ocean Bound Out of Bed -- The Dangerous Right Semicircle -- Providence -- The Tempest -- Cast Adrift -- All Quiet -- The Reckoning -- The Last of the Old New England Summers -- A Nickel for Your Story.
Summary
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
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