Author : Rick Schwartz
Release : 2007
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 000/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States by : Rick Schwartz
Download or read book Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States written by Rick Schwartz. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century.