Historie
On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, Galveston looks untouchable—lace-curtained mansions, crowded wharves, children splashing in water that shouldn’t be in the streets. Then the Gulf begins to rise, not like a tide, but like something standing up. The last trains rattle off the island. Telegraph lines go dead. And a city built on sand discovers what it has been refusing to know.
The Galveston Hurricane follows the storm as a thriller of narrowing choices: a proud boomtown that rejected a seawall, a forecasting system hobbled by politics and broken communication, and Isaac Cline, the local Weather Bureau man watching the sea and weighing when to alarm a skeptical public. As wind and surge collide, homes become weapons, families cling to rafters in the dark, and dawn reveals a death toll beyond American imagination.
Told with cinematic immediacy and strict fidelity to the record, this is disaster history at human scale—how institutions fail, how courage flickers, and how a shattered city decides to rebuild by raising itself above the water. The storm is over in hours. Its lessons are still arriving.
© 2026 NobleTrex Press (E-bog): 6610001250478
Udgivelsesdato
E-bog: 3. juni 2026
Over 1 million titler
Download og nyd titler offline
Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)
Det er nemt at opsige når som helst
For dig som lytter og læser ofte.
129 kr. /måned
1 konto
100 timer/måned
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.
159 kr. /måned
1 konto
Ubegrænset timer
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.
Fra 179 kr. /måned
2-6 konti
100 timer/måned pr. konto
Fri lytning til podcasts
Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto
Ingen binding
Dig + 1 familiemedlem
2 konti179 kr. /måned
For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.
89 kr. /måned
1 konto
20 timer/måned
Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
Har du en rabatkode?
Indtast koden her