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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “"Throughout the night of Friday, September 7, 1900, Isaac Monroe Cline found himself waking to a persistent sense of something gone wrong." This book describes something gone very wrong, indeed a waking nightmare that was every bit as horrific as Hurricane Katrina. Cline worked for the...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Excellent story based on true events. Isaac Cline the weatherman in Galveston in 1900 when studying the weather was a new science and Americans were fool hardy enough to believe they had or could obtain all the answers. Based on actual reports, documents, telegrams and Isaac Cline's own notes as well as the testimony of many survivors. Very relevant after having gone through Hurricane Ike which was so similar to the 1900 storm, devatating land and property but not nearly as many lives were lost thanks to modern science but teaching us that we still have so much to learn.”
Vicki C wrote this review 4 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I found this book incredibly interesting.”
Maria wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A great read about the devastating hurricaine that hit Galveston. Government bureaucracy hasn't changed much in all this time. ”
Marilyn C wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“fascinating...story about survival... before the advent of hurricane warnings ”
Julie H wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This was the second book by Erik Larson that I have read. I found the stories about the hurricane that hit Galveston interesting, and enjoyed the book immensely.”
Judy E wrote this review 4 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Excellent account of the devastating 1900 Galveston hurricane. Very eye opening, hard to read at times having gone through Ike (though Galveston evacuated thankfully) which hammered the Texas coast.”
Cathy C wrote this review Friday, November 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Tragic event. I liked the book, but not as good a writer as David McCullough.”
Lisa L wrote this review Sunday, November 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“WOW! Eric Larson does it again. I have yet to find a book he wrote that I was disappointed in. This book really puts you in the story. You feel as if you are standing on the beach in Galveston watching a wall of black water racing toward you. Then, you are floating on a piece of what was once the house next door searching through the rain for the face of your wife or child. This book takes a seemingly natural and foreign weather disaster and thrusts the reader into the lives of the people who lived through it.”
Misty K wrote this review Sunday, October 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Outstanding account of Galveston hurricane.”
Nonna wrote this review Friday, October 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Liked it. Description of the hurricane of September 8th 1900 that hit Galveston Texas. History of the event through the brief biography of the U.S. Weather Bureau's head of the Galveston station (Isaac Cline), intermixed with the gradual dawning awareness of how powerful and destructive a storm a hurricane truly is. (From the perspective of a victorian age that believed it could conquer nature itself.) Also described is the bureaucratic politics and bungling incompitence of a nacent U.S. Weather Bureau and some interesting history of weather dating all the way back to columbus.
Phillip D wrote this review Sunday, August 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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