Natural Disasters category: 785 books
The Clara Nevada
Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska's Inside Passage
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2011
The true story of a mysterious shipwreck during the Klondike gold rush.
In early February 1898, witnesses reported a giant orange fireball reflected in the glacial waters of Alaska’s Lynn Canal. At the height of Klondike gold fever, the Clara Nevada disappeared into an epic storm, taking...
Outer Banks Shipwrecks
Graveyard of the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Today, the region that stretches from the Currituck Outer Banks south to Bogue Banks is referred to as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." From the 1585 grounding of the English ship...
by Joseph W. Zarzynski, Bob Benway
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Lake George is bustling with boaters, swimmers, fishermen and many others, enjoying its scenic, quintessentially Adirondack shores. But the depths below hide a whole other world--one of shipwrecks and lost history. Entombed are remnants of Lake George's important naval heritage, such as the legendary...
by Amre Youssef, North Jersey Media Group
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Situated between winding rivers and prone to turbulent storms, northern New Jersey has had an extensive and tumultuous history of flooding. The most severe flood occurred in 1903 when three days of nonstop rain, averaging 12 inches per day, melted more than 23 inches of snow and ice�inundating the...
Modern Survival
How to Cope When Everything Falls Apart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
**The author of The Complete SAS Survival Manual delivers “**practical and realistic insights” regarding any disaster the twenty-first century can throw at us (Point Blank).
Tornadoes, floods, and terrorism—frightening events like these are in the news every day, and it’s likely you already...
Survival
A Prepper's Guide to Life after the Crash
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Defend what’s yours when catastrophe strikes with expert tips that go beyond food and water storage.
Should a national disaster occur, how will you respond? What will occur when critical societal services cease to function? As a prepper, you will likely be ready to hole up and live off of...
Wilderness Survival Tools: Bushcraft Strategies and Tools You Will Need to Know to Be Safe When Backpacking or Camping
Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Do you relish life in the great outdoors, do you love to walk and camp? There is something magical about spending time with nature but do you have the skills to handle it if something goes wrong?
What about another emergency – could you cope if you got separated from your group or if your...
Ruthless Tide
The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
**“Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal,starred review
A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood—the deadliest flood in U.S. history—from NBC host and legendary weather authority Al Roker
Central Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889:...
52 Prepper Projects
A Project a Week to Help You Prepare for the Unpredictable
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
“A great assortment of do-it-yourself projects to learn self sufficiency . . . [It] gets my highest recommendation. Buy it. Add it to your prepper library” (Prepper Next Door).
Are you and your family self-reliant? Will you be able to provide for them and keep them safe? The best way to...
Prepping: The Ultimate Survival Guide
The Guide to Surviving Any Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
"Prepping: The Ultimate Survival Guide" is a great way to help the novice to be prepared for an emergency. The ultimate prepper need not have this guide as they will already be prepared for any disaster. This guide will be for the individual that wants to learn how to start getting things...
The Great Penguin Rescue
40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
ON JUNE 23, 2000, the iron-ore carrier MV Treasure, en route from Brazil to China, foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins. Realizing thJuneat 41 percent of the world’s population of African penguins...
by James Will
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Are you concerned that our society is at risk of an EMP attack?
Want to know how you can prepare in case the grid goes down?
If these are things you're concerned about then this is the book for you. EMP attack scenarios are more likely to occur than most people think. If for some reason...
Deluge
Tropical Storm Irene, Vermont’s Flash Floods, and How One Small State Saved Itself
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
On August 28, 2011, after pounding the Caribbean and the U.S. Eastern seaboard for more than a week, Hurricane Irene finally made landfall in New Jersey. As the storm headed into New England, it was quickly downgraded to a tropical storm. And by Sunday afternoon, national news outlets were giving...
Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol
From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Anja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health. Using a state-of-the-art global microphysics model, the thesis describes and quantifies the impact of volcanic sulphur emissions...