A review by book_reader_lover
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

adventurous informative tense fast-paced

4.5

I just don't think anyone beats Erik Larson in nonfiction telling today.  I always find his books fascinating and end up learning things I never did.  Isaac's Storm is no different.  It is about the deadliest hurricane to ever hit America.  It happened 105 years before Katherine, in 1900 in Galveston, Texas.  The hurricane killed thousands and demolished the city.  Some say had it not been for the hurricane, Galveston may have been as big as Houston and as important.  Larson looks at a meteorologist Isaac Cline and the deadliest hurricane.   It seems in those days, men had thought that they had reached the limits of science and that they were immune to nature's power.  A very compelling, vivid true story of life and death.

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