
The Storm of the Century
Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
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In this gripping narrative history, the beloved NBC weather personality vividly brings to life the Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900: the deadliest natural disaster in American history.
On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas' Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the storm had passed, the city that had existed just hours before was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen: 8,000 corpses littered the streets and were buried under the massive wreckage. Rushing water had lifted buildings from their foundations, smashing them into pieces, while intense winds had upended girders and trestles, driving them through house walls and into sidewalks. In less than 24 hours, one storm destroyed a major American metropolis - and awakened a nation to the terrifying power of nature.
The Storm of the Century brings this legendary disaster and its aftermath into brilliant focus. No other natural disaster has ever matched the havoc caused by the awesome mix of winds, rains, and flooding that devastated this bustling metropolis and shocked a young, optimistic nation on the cusp of modernity. Exploring the impact of the disaster on a rising nation's confidence - the pain and trauma of the loss and the determination of the response - Al Roker illuminates both the energy and the limitations of the American Century, and of nature itself.
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De: David McCullough
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Sudden Sea
- De: R.A. Scotti
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea hearkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, listeners experience the Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record.
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Amazing story
- De RoseGrows en 01-07-25
De: R.A. Scotti
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The Great Halifax Explosion
- A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
- De: John U. Bacon
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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From best-selling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima. On Monday, December 3, 1917, the French freighter SS Mont-Blanc set sail from Brooklyn carrying the largest cache of explosives ever loaded onto a ship, including 2,300 tons of picric acid, an unstable, poisonous chemical more powerful than TNT.
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Too much hostility towards Americans
- De bigdaddyKT en 12-14-19
De: John U. Bacon
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Brilliant Beacons
- A History of the American Lighthouse
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines.
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Great book about Lighthouses
- De Anastasia en 04-25-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Storm of the Century
- The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
- De: Willie Drye
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of September 2, 1935, is still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US.
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Better than I expected
- De Jennifer Camp en 07-23-24
De: Willie Drye
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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Ship Ablaze
- The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
- De: Edward T. O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn't have mattered since the steamship was only chartered for a languid excursion from Manhattan to Long Island Sound. But a fire erupted minutes into the trip, forcing hundreds of terrified passengers into the water. By the time the captain found a safe shore for landing, 1,021 had perished. It was New York's deadliest tragedy prior to September 11, 2001.
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I love learning the “rest of the story”
- De Mark Mears en 07-17-18
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Storm Kings
- The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
- De: Lee Sandlin
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings, a riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster - the super cell tornado - that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.
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American Meteorological History at its best
- De Leslye Sinn en 10-23-16
De: Lee Sandlin
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Washed Away
- How the Great Flood of 1913, America’s Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
- De: Geoff Williams
- Narrado por: Jim Vann
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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The incredible story of a flood of near-Biblical proportions - its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America’s natural-disaster policies for the next century. The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. Then the freezing rains started and the flooding began. It was the nation’s most widespread flood ever - more than 700 people died, hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed, and millions were left homeless.
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I love these historical narratives
- De Kim Hamacher en 07-28-15
De: Geoff Williams
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale.
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7 Hours and 45 minutes . . .
- De Tim en 12-09-05
De: Simon Winchester
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Dark Tide
- The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
- De: Stephen Puleo
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like, "a roaring surf," one of them said later. Like, "a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence," said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window - "Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!" A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour.
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INTERESTING STORY - ABOUT 2x TOO LONG
- De The Louligan en 09-07-14
De: Stephen Puleo
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The Great Fire
- De: Jim Murphy
- Narrado por: Taylor Mali
- Duración: 2 h y 31 m
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The Great Fire of 1871 was one of the most colossal disasters in American history - with damage so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again. By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with careful research, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting and dramatic narrative, ultimately revealing how the human spirit triumphed even in a time of deepest despair and the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again.
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Wow. I didn't know that!
- De DonnaMarie113 en 02-17-22
De: Jim Murphy
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds.
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A Rich Read!
- De D en 09-18-03
De: Erik Larson
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus'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 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.
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Good start but went political at the end.
- De thebreeze en 03-24-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Storm of the Century
- The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
- De: Willie Drye
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of September 2, 1935, is still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US.
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Better than I expected
- De Jennifer Camp en 07-23-24
De: Willie Drye
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf.
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Two versions on Audible
- De stephiemav42 en 03-10-21
De: Erik Larson
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus'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 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.
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Good start but went political at the end.
- De thebreeze en 03-24-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Ruthless Tide
- The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
- De: Al Roker
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood - the deadliest flood in US history - from New York Times best-selling author, NBC host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker. May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to breach the South Fork Dam in central Pennsylvania. Though they telegraphed neighboring towns, warning of the impending danger, residents, used to false alarms, remained in their homes. At 3:10 p.m., the dam gave way....
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- De Tracy en 09-08-18
De: Al Roker
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The Galveston Hurricane of 1900
- The Deadliest Natural Disaster in American History
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Steve Rausch
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
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The hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people. Prior to advanced communications, few people knew about impending hurricanes except those closest to the site. In the days before television or even radio, catastrophic descriptions were merely recorded on paper, limiting our understanding of the immediate impact. Thus it was inevitable that the category 4 hurricane would cause almost inconceivable destruction.
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The Hurricane
- De scott massey en 06-14-24
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon.
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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Storm of the Century
- The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
- De: Willie Drye
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of September 2, 1935, is still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US.
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Better than I expected
- De Jennifer Camp en 07-23-24
De: Willie Drye
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf.
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Two versions on Audible
- De stephiemav42 en 03-10-21
De: Erik Larson
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus'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 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.
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Good start but went political at the end.
- De thebreeze en 03-24-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Ruthless Tide
- The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
- De: Al Roker
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood - the deadliest flood in US history - from New York Times best-selling author, NBC host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker. May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to breach the South Fork Dam in central Pennsylvania. Though they telegraphed neighboring towns, warning of the impending danger, residents, used to false alarms, remained in their homes. At 3:10 p.m., the dam gave way....
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Mispronunciation bothers me
- De Tracy en 09-08-18
De: Al Roker
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The Galveston Hurricane of 1900
- The Deadliest Natural Disaster in American History
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Steve Rausch
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
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The hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people. Prior to advanced communications, few people knew about impending hurricanes except those closest to the site. In the days before television or even radio, catastrophic descriptions were merely recorded on paper, limiting our understanding of the immediate impact. Thus it was inevitable that the category 4 hurricane would cause almost inconceivable destruction.
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The Hurricane
- De scott massey en 06-14-24
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon.
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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Sudden Sea
- De: R.A. Scotti
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea hearkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, listeners experience the Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record.
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Amazing story
- De RoseGrows en 01-07-25
De: R.A. Scotti
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Thunderstruck
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Bob Balaban
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication. Their lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
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Reader cannot read
- De Bob en 12-08-07
De: Erik Larson
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Rose Madder
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Blair Brown
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after 14 years in an abusive marriage. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he won't find her. She'll worry about all the rest later. Alone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things finally start to happen. Meeting Bill is one, and getting an apartment is another. Still, it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator.
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Excellent!
- De Nathan en 04-28-16
De: Stephen King
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic.
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- De Sara en 03-05-16
De: Erik Larson
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- De Leslie Rathjens en 03-05-20
De: Erik Larson
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Pet Sematary
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Michael C. Hall
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic, rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Yet despite Ludlow's tranquility, there's an undercurrent of danger that lingers...like the graveyard in the woods near the Creeds' home, where generations of children have buried their beloved pets.
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THIS is what Audible was made for!
- De Nate_D en 04-03-18
De: Stephen King
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- 05-03-24
Good story poorly read.
It is a book filled with a lot of interesting information expertly written. Strikes a great balance of being entertaining and instructive but you wouldn't know by the way it's read. A case study of having inflections in all the wrong places.
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- Claire Z. Evans
- 02-07-16
Brilliantly written and thereby illuminating,
Would you consider the audio edition of The Storm of the Century to be better than the print version?
I enjoy both mediums. Through any form this historical catastrophe should be a must read for all public servants from grass-root groups straight up to the highest office of the land. Considering our brand of democracy is only as good as the education of its citizenry, each and every American, and citizens of any nation should be aware of how much our elective officials and greater still how much each citizen is prepared for disasters that WILL happen.
What did you like best about this story?
The humanizing approach of the community that went a long way to make the reader KNOW that but for the grace of God...
What about Byron Wagner’s performance did you like?
His abililty to keep the reader engaged as well as perplexed by the human frailities of character that played critical roles in the scope of this tragic catastrophy. Therefore this event was not just a natural castrophy.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes! Maybe naively, I conistently marveled at the egos that contributed to the scope of the handling of this disaster.
Any additional comments?
I hope Al Roker, with his depth and expertise in his field as well as his keen observation of human behavior, writes more on human conditions intersecting with nature and the unique historical outcomes.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-28-22
Great book.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. It perfectly told the story from many different perspectives while also educating the reader on the weather bureau etc.
One complaint: learn to say our words for places like Sabine pass. It can’t be that hard to find someone to ask how it’s pronounced in our area.
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- C. Jackson
- 06-08-20
Wonderful and accurate
Much research and interviewing went into this story. The voice of the reader was pleasant.
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- Paul
- 09-12-15
Excellent read
Lots of information about the hurricane of course but also about the National Weather Service development and their role in the story. Newspapers also play a significant role.
Individual stories are intertwined to bring a full picture of this traumatic moment in history.
Well written and read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-28-23
A gripping, sad and illuminating tale
I enjoyed this book immensely, so much that it's 4:35 AM and I just finished it. Written with the factual voice of an experienced meteorologist, it expresses far more than atmospheric facts. I learned tremendous amount of information about the Great 1900 Hurricane that I thought I already knew all about. People like Clara Barton and Isaac Kline step out of the pages of the book and reveal themselves as human beings who are both flawed and brilliant. Most of all, Galveston, rising from the ashes in more ways than one, becomes an example of survival that is almost unbelieveable. Very exciting tale for the weather fan, the fan of politics in turbulent times, and a greatly recommended book for any devotee of Texas history.
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- kthompson1004
- 10-13-16
Excellent story
The audible book starts out a little slowly as there are lots of details about weather, history and basic meteorology that I was not as interested in (I was more interested in the human side of the 1900 hurricane ) but it once it began to move along, the story is very interesting and I learned a great deal! It is well researched and as someone who has visited Galveston several times and worked in recovery there after Hurricane Ike, I found this book to be so compelling. I'd recommend it to anyone who loves a good nonfiction book, especially if you enjoy historical accounts.
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- redheadmomx2
- 08-09-23
Exciting Story
Very detailed and told Don a personal level. I liked the writing style very much and couldn’t put the book down.
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- deedeebob
- 12-28-23
riveting and history filled
historically correct, terrifying, realistic to what happened. if I had my way, everyone would listen to or read this book.
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- S. Noe
- 09-04-15
Review of "The Storm of the Century "
This was an interesting story of an event that as never been told so vividly. It had a few flaws, in my view, of the reader, that were distracting to me. 1. The reader did not pronounce the towns in Texas, as Texans do. ie San Jacinto, Boliver, Sabine etc. if the book is about Texas he should know how to describe the location. 2. Mr. Wagner spoke in a sort of monotone that almost put me to sleep..not a good thing when you are talking about such a vivid happening. Several times I found myself going back and re listening to whole chapters. 3. Perhaps you should have gotten a Texas native reader. It just didn't seem to fit. The dialect and the subject. Having said that, the story was well written and well researched. I really would recommend it. A lot of information there that was new to me, and a fascinating tale of the awesomeness of nature. I particularly liked Mr. Roker's obvious knowledge of the subject matter.
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