epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Catastrophes! [Catastrophes!]

epub |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Emma Larkin

MONKS IN MANDALAY were said to be holding out against the soldiers. Whenever soldiers approached the monasteries there, the temple bells were rung and monks would mass together to form ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:William K. Klingaman & Nicholas P. Klingaman [Klingaman, William K. & Klingaman, Nicholas P.]

8. THE PRICE OF BREAD “There has not been this whole summer one day of steady sunshine, not one day of heat, nor one night when a coverlet and blanket ...

epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester

The elegant copperplate and exquisitely courteous tone of Consul Cameron’s lengthy Krakatoa dispatch to Lord Granville, in London. The error is understandable. Kennedy had in fact been consul in Sumatra, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-07-11 | Author:Erik Larson & Isaac Monroe Cline [Larson, Erik]

We have been absolutely unable to hear a word from Galveston since 4 P.M. yesterday. . . . G. L. Vaughan, Manager Western Union, Houston THE EAST SIDE Louisa Rollfing ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:James D. Nowka [Nowka, James D.]

If you have room, large containers like these 55-gallon food-grade drums could be a good solution for water storage. Some natural waters offer those in need with safer bets than ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Philip Connors

3 June Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Jerry Thompson; Simon Winchester

Gary Carver’s memory of that deceptively sunny day was just as vivid. The shockwaves hit while he was driving to his office on the Humboldt State campus in Arcata. After ...

mobi, epub, azw3 | | 2010-09-15 | Author:Robert Brockway

The Best Wish to Make upon a Falling Star “I wish that was not a meteor about to kill everybody I love.” If that asteroid does enter Earth’s atmosphere, a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-03 | Author:Simon Winchester

The British consul in Batavia at the time was one Alexander Patrick Cameron; and five days later he sat down in his study and had his confidential clerk write out, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Simon Winchester

Krakatoa's final twenty hours and fifty-six minutes were marked by a number of phases. First, from early afternoon on Sunday until about 7 p.m. there was a series of explosions ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Timothy Egan

Boise City, Oklahoma, April 1936 The Ehrlichs tried grinding up thistle for cattle feed, but it did not seem to work as it did for the Lowerys; their stock herd ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-14 | Author:R.A. Scotti

Chapter 15 The Dangerous Right Semicircle Survivors in eastern Connecticut and Massachusetts could not believe that the storm was holding anything back, but the Hurricane of 1938 saved the worst ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Erik Larson

BOLIVAR POINT The Lost Train ABOUT NOON ON Saturday, two trains converged on Galveston, one from the north, the other from the east. The first train belonged to the Galveston, ...