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Sudden sea : the Great Hurricane of 1938 Cover Image Book

Sudden sea : the Great Hurricane of 1938 / R.A. Scotti

Scotti, R. A (Author).

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Draws on period newspaper accounts, eyewitness testimony, and archival footage to recount the Great Hurricane of 1938, which left a trail of death and destruction across seven states and obliterated entire communities and families
Hurricane was a foreign word in New England then. People didn't know how to pronounce it. They didn't know what it meant, and whatever it meant, they were sure it couldn't happen to them. But on that Wednesday, September 21, 1938, a maverick storm was sprinting a mile a minute up the Atlantic seaboard like a giant Cyclops, its intense, sky blue eye fixed on new England. At two o'clock a swath of coastline from Cape May to Maine was one of the wealthiest and most populous in the world. By evening, it was desolate. The Great Hurricane of 1938 was more than a storm. It was the end of a world. - Jacket

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  • ISBN: 0316739111
  • ISBN: 9780316739115
  • Physical Description: viii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown & Co., [2003]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Gone with the Wind 3 -- 1 A Perfect Day 7 -- 2 The Way It Was 25 -- 3 A Shift in the Wind 33 -- 4 Hurricane Watch 37 -- 5 At Sea 51 -- 6 All Aboard 61 -- 7 A Bright Young Man 71 -- 8 Upside Down, Inside Out 83 -- 9 Battening the Hatches 87 -- 10 A One-Hundred-Year Storm 93 -- 11 How Do You Lose a Hurricane? 99 -- 12 The Long Island Express 105 -- 13 Crossing the Sound 119 -- 14 The Atlantic Ocean Bound Out of Bed 125 -- 15 The Dangerous Right Semicircle 137 -- 16 Providence 161 -- 17 The Tempest 171 -- 18 Cast Adrift 189 -- 19 All Quiet 203 -- 20 The Reckoning 209 -- 21 The Last of the Old New England Summers 225 -- Appendix A Nickel for Your Story 239

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