Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

by R. A. Scotti
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

by R. A. Scotti

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316054782
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 12/14/2008
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 556,562
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

R. A. Scotti is the author of three previous works of nonfiction, including Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal-Building St. Peter's and Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938,
and four novels. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Gone with the Wind3
1A Perfect Day7
2The Way It Was25
3A Shift in the Wind33
4Hurricane Watch37
5At Sea51
6All Aboard61
7A Bright Young Man71
8Upside Down, Inside Out83
9Battening the Hatches87
10A One-Hundred-Year Storm93
11How Do You Lose a Hurricane?99
12The Long Island Express105
13Crossing the Sound119
14The Atlantic Ocean Bound Out of Bed125
15The Dangerous Right Semicircle137
16Providence161
17The Tempest171
18Cast Adrift189
19All Quiet203
20The Reckoning209
21The Last of the Old New England Summers225
Afterword235
AppendixA Nickel for Your Story239
Author's Acknowledgments245
Sources and Chapter Notes247
Selected Bibliography257
Index265
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