Threatening Skies
History's Most Dangerous Weather
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Swirling tornadoes, blinding blizzards, and driving rain. Killer storms have wreaked havoc throughout history, especially before reliable prediction tools were available. Follow the deadly paths of history's most dangerous weather events.
©2017 Suzanne Garbe, Vladimir Jankovic (P)2017 Capstone Publishers, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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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3 out of 5 stars
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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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Disaster!
- A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
- De: John Withington
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 17 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
A comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day. But such catastrophic events - as terrible and frightening as they are - have been happening for as long as mankind has walked the Earth.... and even before. From ancient volcanoes and floods to epidemics of cholera and smallpox to Hitler's mass killings in the 20th century, humanity's continued existence has always seemed perilous.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic account of disasters!
- De Gardenstate Reader en 12-30-19
De: John Withington
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Rain
- A Natural and Cultural History
- De: Cynthia Barnett
- Narrado por: Christina Traister
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first audiobook to tell the story of rain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly a cultural history
- De serine en 02-10-16
De: Cynthia Barnett
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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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5 out of 5 stars
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The Hurricane
- De scott massey en 06-14-24
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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
- De: Al Roker, William Hogeland
- Narrado por: Byron Wagner
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review of "The Storm of the Century "
- De S. Noe en 09-04-15
De: Al Roker, y otros
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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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5 out of 5 stars
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American Meteorological History at its best
- De Leslye Sinn en 10-23-16
De: Lee Sandlin
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Artificial Intelligence
- Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?
- De: Yorick Wilks
- Narrado por: Hannibal Hills
- Duración: 5 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies, and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works. He also considers the future, assessing whether these technologies could menace our way of life and how we are all likely to benefit from AI applications in the years to come.
De: Yorick Wilks
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 589
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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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2 out of 5 stars
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7 Hours and 45 minutes . . .
- De Tim en 12-09-05
De: Simon Winchester
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 734
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 732
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- De rwise en 01-26-04
De: Simon Winchester
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The Children's Blizzard
- De: David Laskin
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 313
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 285
January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True Account of 1888 Prairie Blizzard
- De Mary Burnight en 01-09-17
De: David Laskin
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book about Lighthouses
- De Anastasia en 04-25-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Island on Fire
- The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
- De: Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 213
Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting and Pertinent Topic!
- De Catherine Puma en 01-23-22
De: Alexandra Witze, y otros
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciation bothers me
- De Tracy en 09-08-18
De: Al Roker
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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The End of Ice
- Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
- De: Dahr Jamail
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 409
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 363
After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis - from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest - in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dealing with the Ultimate Climate Change Question
- De red_dog en 02-03-19
De: Dahr Jamail
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Tambora
- The Eruption That Changed the World
- De: Gillen D'Arcy Wood
- Narrado por: Tom Pile
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Amid devastating storms, drought, and floods, communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unexpected pleasure
- De Anonymous User en 09-04-16
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story
- De RoseGrows en 01-07-25
De: R.A. Scotti