Category: Disasters

In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS" Bounty," an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic--a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy. Crewed by an eclectic team of seafarers, the "Bounty" was led by Robin Walbridge, their highly respected captain with decades at the helm, whose decisions--sometimes questionable--decided the fate of his ship and crew. Departing from Connecticut as the st...
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A Nation Forsaken: EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe

By: Maloof

Price: $12.50

Publisher: WND Books: January 2013

Seller ID: 159326

ISBN: 1936488566

Condition: Used - Very Good

The United States is more vulnerable than ever to an EMP attack that could shut down the country overnight, resulting in tens of millions of deaths and a 19th-century lifestyle for Americans for the foreseeable future, says a new book, "A Nation Forsaken," written by a long-time national security expert. Even worse, the threat doesn't just come from terrorists, but from unpreventable solar activity -- and a new peak period is on the way, threatening the economic and national security of the entire country, writes F. Michael Maloof. Although presidential candidates such as Newt Gingrich...
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Viking Adult: May 2000

Seller ID: 38290

ISBN: 0670891576

Condition: Used - Very Good

"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed--at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port bow. . ."In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex--an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-...
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When All Plans Fail

By: Paul R. Williams

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Mountain View Publishing: May 2008

Seller ID: 36531

ISBN: 0615209378

Condition: Used - Very Good

Who Is to Blame?: Disasters, Nature, and Acts of God

By: White

Price: $16.99

Publisher: Monarch Books: September 2014

Seller ID: 276998

ISBN: 085721473X

Condition: New

When All Plans Fail: Be Ready for Disaster

By: Williams M.D., Paul R.

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Creation House: August 2015

Seller ID: 274181

ISBN: 1629984108

Condition: New

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

By: Winchester, Simon

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harper: October 2005

Seller ID: 303954

ISBN: 0060571993

Condition: Used - Very Good

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by ...
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Unshaken: Rising from the Ruins of Haiti's Hotel Montana

By: Woolley, Dan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Zondervan: December 2011

Seller ID: 316127

ISBN: 0310335086

Condition: Used - Very Good

After a last-minute hotel switch, no one, not even Dan Woolley's wife, knew where he was staying when the 7.0 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010. Just moments after walking into the lobby of the Hotel Montana, Woolley watched the walls buckle as the six-story hotel collapsed on top of him. In a harrowing story of survival, he recounts the nearly three days he spent trapped beneath the rubble. He details his survival methods---including using an iPhone app to treat his life-threatening injuries, conversations with strangers buried nearby, letters to his family, and the sm...
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Category: Disasters