Nature - Natural Disasters
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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild TimesA common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution--not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear,...
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf CoastBeyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by hurricane Katrina. Trethewey spent her childhood in Gulfport, where much of her mother's extended family, including her younger brother,...
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Death Rides the Sky: Incredible Survival Stories of America's Worst TornadoOn an ordinary Wednesday in the pre-spring days of 1925, folks in the Midwest were going about their business as they usually did: children attending school, farmers preparing the fields, coal miners underground and merchants in their stores, each with their own concerns and...
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of DisasterA witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision,...
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Everything in Its PathThe 1977 Sorokin Award-winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following...
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FireA riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely essay about war-torn Afghanistan -- a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban's defeat in Kabul -- new to book form.Sebastian...
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Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets WildfireA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year - A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year "Vivid prose as electrifying as any beach novel you're likely to find this summer." --San Francisco Chronicle In June 2008 more than two thousand wildfires, all...
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History"Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination." --Chicago Sun-Times On October 8, 1871--the same night as the Great Chicago Fire--the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a...
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Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster"Gripping, unshakeable firsthand account. . . . Riveting." --San Francisco Chronicle A revelatory and searingly immediate report from the frontlines of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, who covered the fires...
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Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary WatersStories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness's epochal weather disaster On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Originating over the...
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How to Survive Against the Odds: Tales and Tips for Animal Attacks and Natural DisastersInspired by Wondery's hit podcast Against the Odds--learn how to survive whatever nature can throw at you through gut-twisting true stories of survival on the brinkHow to Survive Against the Odds places you at the center of fifteen real life-or-death scenarios. Each story explores...
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In Deep Water: A True Story of Sharks, Survival, and CourageThe terrifying true story of a fight for survival for 28 hours in shark-infested waters.October, 8, 2022.Three friends are fishing for red snapper when their boat, tied to an oil rig, begins taking on water and sinks 15 miles out in the Gulf of...
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In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. HelensA napping volcano blinked awake in March 1980. Two months later, when that mountain roared, Jim Scymanky was about twelve miles northwest, logging a north slope above Hoffstadt Creek. "Rocks zinged through the woods, bouncing off trees, then the tops of trees snapped off......
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El FaroA NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF JANET MASLIN'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICEONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMERONE OF AMAZON'S BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO...
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Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme WeatherAn eye-of-the-hurricane view of storm chasing from the star of the Discovery Channel hit series Storm Chasers. Only one in ten chases actually intercept a tornado-unless you're Reed Timmer. The thrill-seeking meteorologist and star of Storm Chasers has followed and faced down more violent...
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in HistoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history--from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City "A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the...
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in HistoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history--from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City "A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the...
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Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting WildfireDuring one incendiary summer, Murry Taylor kept an extensive journal of his day-to-day activities as an Alaskan smokejumper. It wasn't his first season fighting wildfires, and he's far from being a rookie--he's been on the job since 1965. Through this narrative of one busy...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of...
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March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear MeltdownIn time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred...
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