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With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Hurricanes menace North Americ… Mehr…
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each as powerful as 10, 000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV spectacles, unaware of how far-ranging their impact can be. As best-selling historian Eric Jay Dolin contends, we must look to our nationâ??s past if we hope to comprehend the consequences of the hurricanes of the future. With A Furious Sky, Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbusâ??s New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes, such as Benito Vines, a nineteenth-century Jesuit priest whose innovative methods for predicting hurricanes saved countless lives, and puts us in the middle of the most devastating storms of the past, none worse than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6, 000 people, the highest toll of any natural disaster in American history. Dolin draws on a vast array of sources as he melds American history, as it is usually told, with the history of hurricanes, showing how these tempests frequently helped determine the nationâ??s course. Hurricanes, it turns out, prevented Spain from expanding its holdings in North America beyond Florida in the late 1500s, and they also played a key role in shifting the tide of the American Revolution against the British in the final stages of the conflict. As he moves through the centuries, following the rise of the United States despite the chaos caused by hurricanes, Dolin traces the corresponding development of hurricane science, from important discoveries made by Benjamin Franklin to the breakthroughs spurred by the necessities of the World War II and the Cold War. Yet after centuries of study and despite remarkable leaps in scientific knowledge and technological prowess, there are still limits on our ability to predict exactly when and where hurricanes will strike, and we remain terribly vulnerable to the greatest storms on earth. A Furious Sky is, ultimately, a story of a changing climate, and it forces us to reckon with the reality that as bad as the past has been, the future will probably be worse, unless we drastically reimagine our relationship with the planet. | A Furious Sky by Eric Jay Dolin Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > North American History > United States P10103, Eric Jay Dolin<
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Dolin, Eric Jay:A furious sky: the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes.
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[SC: 77.25], [PU: New York: Liveright Publishing, 2020], Jacket, Dolin, Eric Jay. A furious sky: the five-hundred-year history of America's hurricanes. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2020, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xxvii, 392pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $29.95, attractive copy, blue hardcover, appears unused, only slightest wear to jacket. "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". ISBN 9781631495274<
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Dolin, Eric Jay:A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 392 Seiten, Publiziert: 2020-08-04T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 1631495275-localization, 1.68… Mehr…
Liveright Publishing Corporation, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 392 Seiten, Publiziert: 2020-08-04T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 1631495275-localization, 1.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1731, Meteorologie, Geowissenschaften, Naturwissenschaft & Mathematik, Fachbücher, Kategorien, Bücher, Umweltwissenschaft, Freizeit, Haus & Garten, Astronomie, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Umwelt Allgemein, Umwelt & Ökologie, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Format: Illustriert, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020<
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 392 Seiten, Publiziert: 2020-08-04T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 1631495275-localization, 1.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1731, Meteorologie, Geowissenschaften, Naturwissenschaft & Mathematik, Fachbücher, Kategorien, Bücher, Umweltwissenschaft, Freizeit, Haus & Garten, Astronomie, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Umwelt Allgemein, Umwelt & Ökologie, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Format: Illustriert, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020<
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