- Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: Vintage; Auflage: Vintage Books. (11. Juli 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0375708278
- ISBN-13: 978-0375708275
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 12,3 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.2 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (113 Kundenrezensionen)
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On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. By the time the water and winds subsided, entire streets had disappeared and as many as 10,000 were dead--making this the worst natural disaster in America's history.
In Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson blends science and history to tell the story of Galveston, its people, and the hurricane that devastated them. Drawing on hundreds of personal reminiscences of the storm, Larson follows individuals through the fateful day and the storm's aftermath. There's Louisa Rollfing, who begged her husband, August, not to go into town the morning of the storm; the Ursuline Sisters at St. Mary's orphanage who tied their charges to lengths of clothesline to keep them together; Judson Palmer, who huddled in his bathroom with his family and neighbors, hoping to ride out the storm. At the center of it all is Isaac Cline, employee of the nascent Weather Bureau, and his younger brother--and rival weatherman--Joseph. Larson does an excellent job of piecing together Isaac's life and reveals that Isaac was not the quick-thinking hero he claimed to be after the storm ended. The storm itself, however, is the book's true protagonist--and Larson describes its nuances in horrific detail.
At times the prose is a bit too purple, but Larson is engaging and keeps the book's tempo rising in pace with the wind and waves. Overall, Isaac's Storm recaptures at a time when, standing in the first year of the century, Americans felt like they ruled the world--and that even the weather was no real threat to their supremacy. Nature proved them wrong. --Sunny Delaney -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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This engrossing disaster book concerns the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still by far the high-water mark in American natural catastrophes. Like the Johnstown Flood that occurred 10 years earlier (see David McCullough's Johnstown Flood, 1987), nature's wrath was mightily aided by man's obliviousness. Larson highlights two central actors in the drama: the hurricane itself, beginning with its origin in Saharan westerly winds, and Isaac Cline, the Weather Bureau's sentinel in Galveston. Setting the stage, Larson depicts a wealthy, optimistic Galveston, unconcerned by its site on a barrier island scant feet above sea level, blithely ignorant of the storm heading its way. En route to destiny, the hurricane previously walloped Cuba, but a Cuban forecaster's intuitive prediction that Texas was the next landfall was not permitted to be telegraphed out by the Weather Bureau's man in Havana. Skeptical of intuition, he believed in meteorological facts, which convinced him the storm was fizzling out east of Florida. For the main act, Larson reconstructs Isaac Cline's day on 8 September 1900 and ratchets up the tension as clouds gather, the effective device being the sequence of perceptions that disaster was inescapable. Were the rolling waves worrisome? If not, the splintering of the boardwalk concentrated Galvestonians' attention--but, by then, the single railroad out was cut. A further mark of Larson's depth as a writer is his ambivalence about Cline, who may not have acted as heroically as depicted in his own memoir. Although the subject is grim, this telling is a deftly told fable of folly and fate. Gilbert Taylor
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THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT of Friday, September 7, 1900, Isaac Monroe Cline found himself waking to a persistent sense of something gone wrong. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT of Friday, September 7, 1900, Isaac Monroe Cline found himself waking to a persistent sense of something gone wrong. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Are there other folks out there who enjoy reading true accounts of someone else's misfortune, especially if that misfortunate involves a titanic, unstoppable force of nature? A few, really good examples of this true-life disaster genre that I've read over the years are: "The Earth Shook - The Sky Burned" (San Francisco Earthquake)"; "The Coming Plague" (newly emerging diseases); "Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals" (doomed on Lake Superior, etc.); "Rats, Lice, and History" (a biography of typhus); and "Isaac's Storm" (the Galveston hurricane of 1900).
Erik Larson's book on the deadliest hurricane in history has two main focal points: the hurricane itself; and the human drama of Isaac Cline, the Galveston meteorologist who failed to predict the intensity of the storm. The book meanders through occasional dry stretches of Isaac's pre-storm biography, and through the history of the U.S. Weather Bureau (they were interesting, but not nearly as interesting as the storm), but once it focuses on the events of September 8, 1900 and beyond, I wasn't able to set "Isaac's Storm" down. Especially compelling are the eerie descriptions of what it's like to sail through the eye of a hurricane, and of course the narrative (from the viewpoints of several survivors) of what it was like to be in Galveston before, during, and after the storm. If you are afraid of storms or of water, you might not want to read this book because Erik Larson puts you right there when the storm debris is caving in the side of your house, or when the "tide suddenly rises fully four feet at one bound".
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Surely one of the most amazing books I've read in awhile. Larson tells the story of the hurricane of 1900, which completely destroyed the city of Galveston, Texas. Intensely personal, the story is told from the point of view of the townspeople, but especially from that of Isaac Cline, a young forecaster working for the Weather Bureau in Galveston. This book paints a vivid picture of life at the turn of the 20th century, and of the state of weather forecasting 100 years ago. No satellites, no computers or high technology of any kind. Larson's storytelling technique is absorbing and his story is gut-wrenching.
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The success of The Perfect Storm has spawned a whole new genre of fictional history....and this is a perfect example along with this year's The Story of the Whaleship Essex--interesting yarns, but not full-length books. In this case, the great Galveston hurricane appears have the makings of the perfect book, but not in this painfully etiolated telling. Isaac is not a compelling figure--his rigid and abstemious character elicits little if any sympathy. The run-up to the storm is interminable and while the storm itself is good, the book itself is not worth the effort.
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Just to inform...
Just felt like telling everybody that the 1900 storm was NOT the deadliest hurricane in history. Well, it's the deadliest hurricane in American history, but many more people... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. September 2000 veröffentlicht
One of my favorite, and best written accounts of human fault
The huge success of the story of the Titanic (movie) a couple of years ago was not just about the romance which was fictionalized, but also about the reoccurring human belief that... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juli 2000 von K. L Sadler
Great Topic--Terrible Writing
...The book I read was filled with awkward writing, unnecessary speculations of the author, and the most annoying writing style, I've ever encountered. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Juli 2000 von Brendan Hennessy
Gale Force Of A Novel
What an exciting premise...and yet it is based on fact. This is a fascinating and penetrating look at ourselves 100 years ago in all of our infancy and ignorance of the world and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von mdbrake@postnet.com
It's not nice to ignore Mother Nature...In fact, it's deadly
Here we are 100 years after the "deadliest hurricane in history". We ourselves our at the dawn of a new millenium. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Juni 2000 von "charlie4"
A must for weather Enthusiasts
Isaac's storm provides an excellent review of the evolution of both the National Weather Service and Hurricane forecasting. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Juni 2000 von "rgrumm"
Don't Miss This Book!
Once in a blue moon, a special book comes along. You know the kind I mean: You open the cover, read the first few sentences, and find yourself instantly transported into the heart... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Juni 2000 von Delta Woman
Sad Bookend to _The Perfect Storm_
I can't believe the reviews I've seen and am forced to chime in to warn those who expect _Issac's Storm_ to provide the thrill and grip that _The Perfect Storm_ did -- not even... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Juni 2000 von Suede McKnight
Mirroring Its Subject, Story Builds Slowly Then Explodes
On the cusp of 1900 while doctors Minor and Murray were working across the pond on the Oxford English Dictionary, in the recently completed novel Professor and the Madman by Simon... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Mai 2000 von J. Hardy IV
Hubris
Erik Larson's book on the 1900 Galveston Hurricane Disaster compares well with David McCullough's The Johnstown Flood. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Mai 2000 von E. Eggen
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