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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316739111
ISBN-139780316739115
eBay Product ID (ePID)154367529
Product Key Features
Book TitleSudden Sea : the Great Hurricane of 1938
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicNatural Disasters, General, United States / General
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, History
AuthorR. A. Scotti
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-046093
SynopsisOn September 21, 1938, the fastest hurricane on record caught the Northeast by surprise and left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. Traveling at record speeds, the storm raced up the Atlantic coast, reaching New York and New England ahead of hurricane warnings and striking with such intensity that seismographs in Alaska registered the impact. Winds clocked at 186 miles per hour stripped cars of their paint. Walls of water fifty feet high swept homes and entire families out to sea. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, personal testimony of survivors, and archival sources, Sudden Sea recounts that day in terrifying detail. The Moore family climbed up to the attic of their oceanfront home as the waters rose, only to find themselves launched on a roiling ocean. Joseph Matoes watched as the bus carrying his children home from school stalled on the causeway just as the ocean surged into the bay. Three friends, separated in the fury of the storm, found themselves reunited on a beach a state away. These and other tales of heroism, terror, and survival form the heart of this incredible account. At the same time, R. A. Scotti uncovers the unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions that conspired to bring about the unthinkable: a tropical cyclone on the Northeast coast. The Great Hurricane of 1938 scarred a landscape and a generation. R. A. Scotti has written an extraordinary account of an ocean rising up to wreak total destruction on a way of life the world would never see again. Book jacket.
LC Classification NumberQC945.S475 2003
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- 20. Sep. 2019
An Amazing Account of a Fierce Hurricane.
This is one amazing book. It details the hurricane's beginnings and what the art of weather forecasting was like in those long-ago days. Years ago I had watched the now unattainable PBS program about that hurricane. It was amazing and had interviews with some of the people who went through it that were still alive. I wish I had bought it when it was available. But the writer of this book has done a great job with all kinds of information gathered from some of the survivors. She has included a number of black and white photos of some of the people and the devastation in her book. It interested me because my mother worked for a wealthy family that summered on Fire Island and was there that same week in September of 1938. For whatever reason, the family decided to return to their home in New Jersey just a day or so before the monster smashed into New England. The hurricane's damages amounted to about $306 million dollars, which translates into $4.7 billion dollars today. 682 people perished in that fearsome storm which has also been called the "Long Island Express" as well as the "Yankee Clipper." I loved the book and hope you will choose to read it!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 07. Jun. 2025
This book has words in it. Makes it easy...
This book has words in it. Makes it easy to read.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
