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Disasters
- Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes Through the Centuries
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood - the deadliest flood in US history - from New York Times best-selling author, NBC host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker. May 1889: After a deluge of rainfall swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to breach the South Fork Dam in central Pennsylvania. Though they telegraphed neighboring towns, warning of the impending danger, residents, used to false alarms, remained in their homes. At 3:10 p.m., the dam gave way....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciation bothers me
- De Tracy en 09-08-18
De: Al Roker
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The Storm of the Century
- Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
- De: Al Roker, William Hogeland
- Narrado por: Byron Wagner
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 162
On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas' Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the storm had passed, the city that had existed just hours before was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen: 8,000 corpses littered the streets and were buried under the massive wreckage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review of "The Storm of the Century "
- De S. Noe en 09-04-15
De: Al Roker, y otros
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The Great Halifax Explosion
- A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
- De: John U. Bacon
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 287
From best-selling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima. On Monday, December 3, 1917, the French freighter SS Mont-Blanc set sail from Brooklyn carrying the largest cache of explosives ever loaded onto a ship, including 2,300 tons of picric acid, an unstable, poisonous chemical more powerful than TNT.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much hostility towards Americans
- De bigdaddyKT en 12-14-19
De: John U. Bacon
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The Worst Hard Time
- The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Jacob York
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history ruined by Egan's bias & cynicism
- De Nathan en 03-21-23
De: Timothy Egan
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The Gulf
- The Making of an American Sea
- De: Jack E. Davis
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 363
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Decolonize gulf history
- De Jesse Carr en 05-02-18
De: Jack E. Davis
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,275
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,257
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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The American Plague
- The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
- De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism," it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yellow Fever in Memphis
- De Kevin P Key en 04-13-20
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Windfall
- The Booming Business of Global Warming
- De: McKenzie Funk
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Global warming's physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see a potential windfall in each of these forces. The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland - and for the man-made snow trade. Drought creates opportunities for private firefighters working for insurance companies as well as for fund managers backing south Sudanese warlords who control local farmland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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unintended windfalls mixed with obvious perils
- De Andy en 02-09-14
De: McKenzie Funk
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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Brilliant Beacons
- A History of the American Lighthouse
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book about Lighthouses
- De Anastasia en 04-25-21
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Rain
- A Natural and Cultural History
- De: Cynthia Barnett
- Narrado por: Christina Traister
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first audiobook to tell the story of rain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly a cultural history
- De serine en 02-10-16
De: Cynthia Barnett
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Pandemic
- Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
- De: Sonia Shah
- Narrado por: Sonia Shah
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 333
Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera - one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens - and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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You will probably enjoy "Spillover" more
- De serine en 03-01-16
De: Sonia Shah
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Under a Flaming Sky
- The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 562
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 513
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 510
On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350,000 acres in one week, the Hinckley fire did the same damage in five hours. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds, bubbles of plasmalike glowing gas, and 200-foot-tall flames.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History lovers dream book.
- De Lynn Fraser en 10-18-18
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Black Potatoes
- The Story of the Great Irish Famine
- De: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 3 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish Famine, a time when one million people died from starvation and disease and two million more fled their homeland.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Decent Companion to Woodham-Smith's Book
- De Aaron en 11-03-11
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The Galveston Hurricane of 1900
- The Deadliest Natural Disaster in American History
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Steve Rausch
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
The hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people. Prior to advanced communications, few people knew about impending hurricanes except those closest to the site. In the days before television or even radio, catastrophic descriptions were merely recorded on paper, limiting our understanding of the immediate impact. Thus it was inevitable that the category 4 hurricane would cause almost inconceivable destruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History
- De Sherry Olson en 12-25-23
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Dark Tide
- The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
- De: Stephen Puleo
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 321
Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like, "a roaring surf," one of them said later. Like, "a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence," said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window - "Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!" A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour.
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3 out of 5 stars
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INTERESTING STORY - ABOUT 2x TOO LONG
- De The Louligan en 09-07-14
De: Stephen Puleo
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Around the World in 50 Years
- My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
- De: Albert Podell
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him - two to disease, one to the Vietcong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Adventure
- De CJ en 09-12-18
De: Albert Podell
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Disasters
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Total1 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución1 out of 5 stars
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Historia1 out of 5 stars
- chris
- 01-14-15
Welcome to the 4th grade History class
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
It's one thing to skim a topic but having in depth knowledge of more than one of the incidents cited in this book it left me questioning the validity of the rest. Loosely connected trivia doesn't do well to accentuate the disasters but they are included for someone's sake.
It read like my elementary school social studies book with text and descriptions that suits that age group. I was hoping for much more as an avid reader of 20th century history.
What was most disappointing about Brenda Guiberson’s story?
The descriptions
Would you be willing to try another one of Nelson Runger’s performances?
No
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
One of the disasters was accurately described in my opinion.
Any additional comments?
Recommended for anyone looking to learn enough about a disaster to discuss it briefly at a cocktail party.
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