Author: Sidney Perley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Historic Storms of New England
Author: Sidney Perley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Thirty-Eight
Author: Stephen Long
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030022088X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people and destroying roads, bridges, dams, and buildings that stood in its path. Not yet spent, the hurricane then raced inland, maintaining high winds into Vermont and New Hampshire and uprooting millions of acres of forest. This book is the first to investigate how the hurricane of ’38 transformed New England, bringing about social and ecological changes that can still be observed these many decades later. The hurricane’s impact was erratic—some swaths of forest were destroyed while others nearby remained unscathed; some stricken forests retain their prehurricane character, others have been transformed. Stephen Long explores these contradictions, drawing on survivors’ vivid memories of the storm and its aftermath and on his own familiarity with New England’s forests, where he discovers clues to the storm’s legacies even now. Thirty-Eight is a gripping story of a singularly destructive hurricane. It also provides important and insightful information on how best to prepare for the inevitable next great storm.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030022088X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people and destroying roads, bridges, dams, and buildings that stood in its path. Not yet spent, the hurricane then raced inland, maintaining high winds into Vermont and New Hampshire and uprooting millions of acres of forest. This book is the first to investigate how the hurricane of ’38 transformed New England, bringing about social and ecological changes that can still be observed these many decades later. The hurricane’s impact was erratic—some swaths of forest were destroyed while others nearby remained unscathed; some stricken forests retain their prehurricane character, others have been transformed. Stephen Long explores these contradictions, drawing on survivors’ vivid memories of the storm and its aftermath and on his own familiarity with New England’s forests, where he discovers clues to the storm’s legacies even now. Thirty-Eight is a gripping story of a singularly destructive hurricane. It also provides important and insightful information on how best to prepare for the inevitable next great storm.
The 1938 Hurricane Along New England's Coast
Author: Joseph P. Soares
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738557595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Pictorial images of the devastation of New England's coast after a devastating hurricane in 1938.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738557595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Pictorial images of the devastation of New England's coast after a devastating hurricane in 1938.
Storm of the Century
Author: Christopher J. Haraden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972784504
Category : Blizzards
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The record-setting storm's impact on the area is explored through first-hand accounts from survivors, relief workers and former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, among others.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972784504
Category : Blizzards
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The record-setting storm's impact on the area is explored through first-hand accounts from survivors, relief workers and former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, among others.
Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States
Author: Rick Schwartz
Publisher: Blue Diamond Books
ISBN: 9780978628000
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century.
Publisher: Blue Diamond Books
ISBN: 9780978628000
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century.
Taken by Storm 1938
Author: Lourdes B. Avilés
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878220370
Category : Hurricanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"On September 21, 1938 the great New England hurricane hit the shores of New York and New England unannounced. The most powerful storm of the century, it changed everything, from the landscape and its inhabitants' lives, to Red Cross and Weather Bureau protocols, to the amount of Great Depression Relief New Englanders would receive, and the resulting pace of regional economic recovery"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781878220370
Category : Hurricanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"On September 21, 1938 the great New England hurricane hit the shores of New York and New England unannounced. The most powerful storm of the century, it changed everything, from the landscape and its inhabitants' lives, to Red Cross and Weather Bureau protocols, to the amount of Great Depression Relief New Englanders would receive, and the resulting pace of regional economic recovery"--Provided by publisher.
Sudden Sea
Author: R. A. Scotti
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 031605478X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 031605478X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
Historic Storms of New England
Author: Sidney Perley
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1889833274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A reissue of the classic book of historic New England storms, first published in 1891 by Sidney Perley (1858-1928).
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1889833274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A reissue of the classic book of historic New England storms, first published in 1891 by Sidney Perley (1858-1928).
The Great Hurricane: 1938
Author: Cherie Burns
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
With masterful storytelling skill, Burns follows the punishing path of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which hit the eastern seaboard, from Long Island to Connecticut and Rhode Island, in a seamless and suspenseful narrative, preserving for posterity the personal stories of survivors and the legend of the storm.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
With masterful storytelling skill, Burns follows the punishing path of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which hit the eastern seaboard, from Long Island to Connecticut and Rhode Island, in a seamless and suspenseful narrative, preserving for posterity the personal stories of survivors and the legend of the storm.
Storms and Shipwrecks of New England
Author: Edward Rowe Snow
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1933212217
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, first published in 1943 and updated in 1944 and again in 1946, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England relates what William P. Quinn calls ""stories of stormy adventure."" Jeremy D'Entremont has provided annotations to Snow's chapters, covering the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus, the Portland Gale, the 1938 hurricane, and more, bringing the information about the storms and shipwrecks up to date.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1933212217
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, first published in 1943 and updated in 1944 and again in 1946, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England relates what William P. Quinn calls ""stories of stormy adventure."" Jeremy D'Entremont has provided annotations to Snow's chapters, covering the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus, the Portland Gale, the 1938 hurricane, and more, bringing the information about the storms and shipwrecks up to date.