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Storm Islands

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Author : Ann Quinton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-01-01

Storm Islands written by Ann Quinton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Large type books categories.

Storm Island

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Author : Frances B. Berres
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971

Storm Island written by Frances B. Berres and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Readers categories.

Island In A Storm

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Author : Abby Sallenger
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2009-06-02

Island In A Storm written by Abby Sallenger and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with History categories.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Isle Derniere was emerging as an exclusive summer resort on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. About one hundred miles from New Orleans, it attracted the most prominent members of antebellum Louisiana society. Hundreds of affluent planters and merchants retreated to the island, not just for its pleasures, but also to escape the scourge of yellow fever epidemics that ravaged cities like New Orleans each summer. Then, without warning, on August 10, 1856, a ferocious hurricane swept across the island, killing half of its four hundred inhabitants. The Isle Derniere was left barren, except for a strange forest standing in the surf. Drawing from a rich trove of newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and interviews, Abby Sallenger re-creates the chain of events that led a group of people to seek refuge on an exposed strip of land in the sea. He chronicles the dramatic course of the hurricane itself, as seen through the eyes of a diverse cast of real-life characters, including eighteen-year-old Emma Mille, her French father, a steamboat captain, a pastor, and a slave. Island in a Storm is the story of their bravery and cowardice, luck and misfortune, life and death. At the heart of this narrative lies another, equally compelling, story. Sallenger, an oceanographer, traces the insidious link between the environmental deaths across the Mississippi delta and the human deaths that occurred when the storm swept ashore. The result is a fascinating portrait of a coast in perpetual motion and a rising sea that made the Isle Derniere particularly vulnerable to a great hurricane. Ultimately, Island in a Storm is a cautionary environmental tale. Global warming is spreading the unique hazards of river deltas to coasts around the world, and the signs of what happened to Isle Derniere may soon be appearing on other islands. The account of this nineteenth-century disaster and its aftermath offers a vital historical lesson as we continue to develop precarious coastal locations whose vulnerability will only grow as sea levels rise across the globe.

The Great Sea Island Storm Of 1893

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Author : Bill Marscher
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 2004

The Great Sea Island Storm Of 1893 written by Bill Marscher and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 details human courage and perseverance in the face of the second most fatal hurricane in US history.

Storm Data

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Storm Data written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Storms categories.

Islands In The Storm

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Author : William Sargent
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-08-04

Islands In The Storm written by William Sargent and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-04 with Nature categories.

Redolent with wit, wisdom and common sense, Islands in the Storm tells the remarkable story of barrier beach island dwellers, before, during and after Hurricane Sandy. It presents the pungent reminder that at the present rate of sea level rise increase all of America's 200 barrier beach communities will start disintegrating within the next few decades. This is a book you will not want to put down.