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A review by abookolive
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin
4.0
An accomplished and effective chronicle of the major hurricanes that have struck North America in the past 500 years of recorded history and the way we've improved the methods by which we've predicted and responded to these terrifying storms.
I think the (understandable) choice to organize this book chronologically buried the lede a bit in terms of the information about hurricanes (the development of radar and increased news coverage didn't fully come onto the scene until the 1950s, for instance, so we don't hear about those things until over halfway through the book), but I think Dolin does a great job of communicating the power of tropical cyclones without going overboard and making clear the human impact by telling the stories of real people in the path of these storms. A must read, especially if you're interested in weather.
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I think the (understandable) choice to organize this book chronologically buried the lede a bit in terms of the information about hurricanes (the development of radar and increased news coverage didn't fully come onto the scene until the 1950s, for instance, so we don't hear about those things until over halfway through the book), but I think Dolin does a great job of communicating the power of tropical cyclones without going overboard and making clear the human impact by telling the stories of real people in the path of these storms. A must read, especially if you're interested in weather.
Click here to hear more of my thoughts on this book over on my Booktube channel, abookolive!