Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World
by Abby Sallenger 
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This gripping recreation of a deadly 1856 hurricane also illuminates social history, weather, science, and the growing threat to vulnerable coastsTags
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An excellent book about a hurricane in 1856 that destroyed a barrier island off the coast of New Orleans. Many New Orleans families were vacationing on the island when the storm struck. The author tells a gripping tale of survival in a catastrophe. He also gives a lot of background information about hurricanes, weather forecasting in the 19th century, barrier islands, and shipping at the time. I was drawn in by the narrative about the people, but ultimately found the background information more interesting. Highly recommended if you like gripping historical narrative.
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Common Knowledge
- Epigraph
- On the gulf side of these islands you may observe that the trees - where there are any trees - all bend away from the sea; and even of bright, hot days when the wind sleeps, there is something grotesquely pathetic in their lo... (show all)ok of agonized terror. A group of oaks...I remember as especially suggestive: five stooping silhouettes in line against the horizon, like fleeing women with streaming garments and wind-blown hair, bowing grievously and thrusting their arms desperately northward as to save themselves from falling. And they are being pursued indeed - for the sea is devouring the land. -Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889)
- First words
- In the summer of 1856, Emma Mille traveled with several of her family members to Isle Derniere, or Last Island, the westernmost of the long, sandy barrier islands that line of Gulf of Mexico shore off Central Louisiana. -Prol... (show all)ogue
New Orleans in the 1850s was alluring - a city of stunning architecture, a booming economy, unbridled opportunity - and deadly, a black widow that enticed immigrants with its charm and promise, then devourted them. -Chapter 1... (show all), The City of the Dead - Canonical DDC/MDS
- 976.34105
- Canonical LCC
- F377.T5
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Science & Nature, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 976.34105 — History & geography History of North America South central United States Louisiana South-Central Louisiana Terrebonne Parish
- LCC
- F377 .T5 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Louisiana
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
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