ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown] Hardcover
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

Crown Publishing Group (NY), Date: 1999. Hardback. Very good, good dusk jacket, cre. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes History Of The AmericasVery good copy, good dusk jacket with some creasing 1999. Crown Publishing Group (NY) ISBN 0609602330 9780609602331 [US]

ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.] Hardcover First Edition Stated first edition. First printing. Unclipped, mylar protected dust jacket. Both the book and the jacket are like new. Not a remainder
[Gillette, WY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
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ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)] Hardcover Hardcover. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf.That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nation and killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd things seemed to happen everywhere: A plague of crickets engulfed Waco. The Bering Glacier began to shrink. Rain fell on Galveston with greater intensity than anyone could remember. Far away, in Africa, immense thunderstorms blossomed over the city of Dakar, and great currents of wind converged. A wave of atmospheric turbulence slipped from the coast of western Africa. Most such waves faded quickly. This one did not.In Cuba, America's overconfidence was made all too obvious by the Weather Bureau's obsession with controlling hurricane forecasts, even though Cuba's indigenous weathermen had pioneered hurricane science. As the bureau's ...
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ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown] Hardcover
[Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown Pub, New York] Hardcover First Edition A solid tight square carefully read copy. The priced jacket has some light edgewear else fine. This copy has some light pagedge soil else fine THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY.
[Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown] Hardcover
[Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown] Hardcover First Edition Isaac’s Storm. Erik Larson. [1999] first printing; Crown; near fine jacketed hardcover. Two-toned with sharp corners, clean boards, and crisp gold text on spine; tight/square and unmarked. Really a remarkable copy with full numberline; very good or better jacket in archival cover. Illustrated. One of the exceptional books about the 1900 storm in Galveston, Texas.
[Friendswood, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
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ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.21
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

Crown, Date: 1999-08-24. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1999. Crown ISBN 0609602330 9780609602331 [US]

ISBN10: 0609602330, ISBN13: 9780609602331, [publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York] Hardcover First Edition Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Owner name on rear side of dedication page. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; 336 pages.
[Pomona, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
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