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Island in a storm : a rising sea, a vanishing coast, and a nineteenth-century disaster that warns of a warmer world /
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Isle Derniere was emerging as an exclusive summer resort on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. About one hundred miles from New Orleans, it attracted the most prominent members of antebellum Louisiana society. Hundreds of affluent planters and merchants retreated to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
©2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the mid-nineteenth century, the Isle Derniere was emerging as an exclusive summer resort on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. About one hundred miles from New Orleans, it attracted the most prominent members of antebellum Louisiana society. Hundreds of affluent planters and merchants retreated to the island, not just for its pleasures, but also to escape the scourge of yellow fever epidemics that ravaged cities like New Orleans each summer. Then, without warning, on August 10, 1856, a ferocious hurricane swept across the island, killing half of its four hundred inhabitants. The Isle Derniere. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780786741526 078674152X |