The Resource A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes, Eric Jay Dolin
A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes, Eric Jay Dolin
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The item A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes, Eric Jay Dolin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- Summary
- "The best-selling author of Leviathan returns with the first major historical account of America's hurricanes, and reveals how they've shaped our nation. From the moment European colonists laid violent claim to this land, hurricanes have had a profound and visceral impact on American history-yet, no one has attempted to write the definitive account of America's entanglement with these meteorological behemoths. Now, best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin presents the five-hundred-year story of American hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus' New World voyages, to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the escalation of hurricane season as a result of global warming. Populating his narrative with unlikely heroes such as Benito Vines, the nineteenth-century Jesuit priest whose revelatory methods for predicting hurricanes saved countless lives, and journalist Dan Rather, whose coverage of a 1961 hurricane would change broadcasting history, Dolin uncovers the often surprising ways we respond to natural crises. A necessary work of environmental and cultural history, A Furious Sky will change the way we understand the storms on the horizon of America's future"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxvii, 392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Epilogue. Stormy weather ahead
- A new and violent world
- The law of storms
- Seeing into the future
- Obliterated
- Death and destruction in the sunshine state
- The great hurricane of 1938
- Into, over, and under the Maelstrom
- A rogues' gallery
- Isbn
- 9781631495274
- Label
- A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes
- Title
- A furious sky
- Title remainder
- the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes
- Statement of responsibility
- Eric Jay Dolin
- Subject
-
- trueAtlantic Ocean
- trueClimate change
- Global warming
- trueGulf of Mexico
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
- History
- History
- trueHumans -- Effect of environment on
- Hurricanes
- Hurricanes
- Hurricanes -- United States -- History
- Meteorology
- NATURE / Natural Disasters
- Natural disasters -- History
- Storms
- Storms
- Storms -- United States -- History
- United States
- United States -- History
- Weather forecasting
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The best-selling author of Leviathan returns with the first major historical account of America's hurricanes, and reveals how they've shaped our nation. From the moment European colonists laid violent claim to this land, hurricanes have had a profound and visceral impact on American history-yet, no one has attempted to write the definitive account of America's entanglement with these meteorological behemoths. Now, best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin presents the five-hundred-year story of American hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus' New World voyages, to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the escalation of hurricane season as a result of global warming. Populating his narrative with unlikely heroes such as Benito Vines, the nineteenth-century Jesuit priest whose revelatory methods for predicting hurricanes saved countless lives, and journalist Dan Rather, whose coverage of a 1961 hurricane would change broadcasting history, Dolin uncovers the often surprising ways we respond to natural crises. A necessary work of environmental and cultural history, A Furious Sky will change the way we understand the storms on the horizon of America's future"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dolin, Eric Jay
- Dewey number
-
- 363.34/9220973
- 551.552/0973
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QC945
- LC item number
- .D65 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Hurricanes
- Storms
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
- NATURE / Natural Disasters
- Storms
- Hurricanes
- United States
- Label
- A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes, Eric Jay Dolin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-373) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Epilogue. Stormy weather ahead
- A new and violent world
- The law of storms
- Seeing into the future
- Obliterated
- Death and destruction in the sunshine state
- The great hurricane of 1938
- Into, over, and under the Maelstrom
- A rogues' gallery
- Control code
- on1120095836
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxvii, 392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781631495274
- Lccn
- 2019059367
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40030076342
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1120095836
- Label
- A furious sky : the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes, Eric Jay Dolin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-373) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Epilogue. Stormy weather ahead
- A new and violent world
- The law of storms
- Seeing into the future
- Obliterated
- Death and destruction in the sunshine state
- The great hurricane of 1938
- Into, over, and under the Maelstrom
- A rogues' gallery
- Control code
- on1120095836
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxvii, 392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781631495274
- Lccn
- 2019059367
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40030076342
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1120095836
Subject
- trueAtlantic Ocean
- trueClimate change
- Global warming
- trueGulf of Mexico
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
- History
- History
- trueHumans -- Effect of environment on
- Hurricanes
- Hurricanes
- Hurricanes -- United States -- History
- Meteorology
- NATURE / Natural Disasters
- Natural disasters -- History
- Storms
- Storms
- Storms -- United States -- History
- United States
- United States -- History
- Weather forecasting
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