Natural Disasters category: 785 books
Mayday Over Wichita
The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
On the cold Saturday morning of January 16, 1965, a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker carrying thirty-one thousand gallons of jet fuel crashed into a congested African American neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas. When the fire and destruction finally subsided, forty-seven people--mostly African American children--were...
by Stephan G. Bullard, Bridget J. Gromek, Martha Fout
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Point Pleasant's Silver Bridge, the first eyebar suspension bridge in the United States, was an engineering marvel when it was constructed in 1927 and 1928. Located on US Highway 35, the bridge spanned the Ohio River and linked Point Pleasant, West Virginia, with the towns of Kanauga and Gallipolis,...
Phoenix Rising
Stories of Remarkable Women Walking Through Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
How do you go on after you’ve lost everything? True stories of surviving the Colorado wildfires and finding hope for the future.
Over several terrifying summers, deadly wildfires raged across Colorado. Lives were lost, and the flames destroyed thousands of homes. When the smoke cleared and...
Inside the Inferno
A Firefighter's Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
An action-packed, on-the-ground memoir of the Fort McMurray wildfire and the courage, resilience, and sacrifice of the firefighters who saved the city.
In May 2016, what began as a remote forest fire quickly became a nightmare for the ninety thousand residents of Fort McMurray. A perfect combination...
Coming Back Alive
The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.
One hundred fifty...
by David Healey
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Even before John Smith's crew weathered its first squall, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries had been ravaged by every type of storm imaginable. A 1769 hurricane altered the course of history, demolishing the shipping channels of Charlestown and making Baltimore the dominant port. A once-in-five-hundred-years...
by Michael Skidgell
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Almost 7,000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Show on Earth" quickly became one of terror and tragedy as the paraffin-coated circus tent caught fire. Panicked crowds rushed for the few exits, but in minutes,...
Fire Monks
Zen Mind Meets Wildfire
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The "vivid" and "electrifying" true story of how five monks saved the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States from wildfire (San Francisco Chronicle).
When a massive wildfire surrounded Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, five monks risked their lives to save it. A...
Thirty-Eight
The Hurricane That Transformed New England
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
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...
Disaster on the Potomac
The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
For passengers of the steamboat Wawaset, August 8, 1873, began with a pleasant cruise from Washington, D.C., down the Potomac River. As the Wawaset came into sight of a small Virginia landing, fire broke out below decks, and frantic passengers leapt from the flames only to be pulled down by the swift...
by J Porter
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
This Contemporaneous account tells of the destruction caused by the three consecutive devastating storms during the month of December 1839.First published in pamphlet form in 1840, Boston.
by Bonar Menninger
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A Stunning, Illustrated Account of Devastation and Survival in the Wake of One of America's Most Destructive TornadosColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel's black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were...
Firestorm
How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast.” It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live...
by Arthur Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
You are an expert on earthquakes and you fear their awesome power to the point of insanity. Now you are sure that an earthquake is building below your very feet. Your house, your family, your friends, your town, are about to be destroyed.
The cracks appearing in the walls..the strange movements...