Death from the Sea

Death from the Sea Our Greatest Natural Disaster: The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 by Herbert Molloy Mason Jr. Published by Dial Press, New York, NY, 1972. 1st Signed Edition 1st Printing. Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped DJ. Signed by author on front loose end paper. 260 Pgs. LCCN 70-37445. This anatomy of disaster in an American town is based on survivors' accounts and official records. It is told in a minute-by-minute description of how the customarily gentle sea breezes mounted to gales and then winds of unprecedented violence, causing the ocean to rise up and fall upon the beautiful and unsuspecting port city. Walls of water swept over some 1,500 acres. Nearly 4,000 homes were destroyed. Some estimates of loss of life ran as high as 8,000. The long bridge connecting Galveston with the mainland was washed away, leaving the ''Queen City'' a derelict island harboring its dead. Heroics were almost commonplace during the destruction, and the moral of the story is that a city cannot be killed unless it wants to die. Galveston is very much alive today and this book shows why. Description text copyright 2017 www.BooksForComfort.net. Item ID 31859.