Disaster Books

Beschrijving
Some of the best books about disasters...of all types.
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
door John M. Barry
4,304 leden
134 besprekingen
3.9
7 Members
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Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
door David Von Drehle
1,212 leden
34 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
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Krakatau de dag dat de wereld ontplofte 27 augustus 1883
door Simon Winchester
4,139 leden
122 besprekingen
3.8
5 Members
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De volmaakte storm
door Sebastian Junger
6,134 leden
93 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards : Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
door Jay Feldman
326 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Wij houden van Tsjernobyl: Een kroniek van de toekomst
door Svetlana Alexievich
2,337 leden
78 besprekingen
½ 4.3
4 Members
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
door Sheri Fink
1,523 leden
168 besprekingen
4.1
4 Members
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De metereoloog en de storm. Roman
door Erik Larson
4,068 leden
136 besprekingen
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4 Members
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The Children's Blizzard
door David Laskin
1,688 leden
76 besprekingen
4
4 Members
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The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
door Stewart O'Nan
584 leden
26 besprekingen
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4 Members
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
door David Cowan
236 leden
12 besprekingen
½ 4.4
4 Members
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Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
door Laura M. Mac Donald
443 leden
21 besprekingen
4.1
4 Members
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
door Stephen Puleo
737 leden
32 besprekingen
3.9
4 Members
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The Johnstown Flood
door David McCullough
2,262 leden
72 besprekingen
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3 Members
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Een nacht om nooit te vergeten de ondergang van de 'Titanic'
door Walter Lord
2,977 leden
63 besprekingen
4.1
3 Members
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
door Jim Dwyer
1,365 leden
50 besprekingen
4.1
3 Members
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
door Gary Krist
319 leden
11 besprekingen
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3 Members
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The Triangle Fire
door Leon Stein
108 leden
1 bespreking
4.2
3 Members
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
door John M. Barry
1,421 leden
26 besprekingen
4.2
3 Members
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
door Douglas Brinkley
851 leden
19 besprekingen
4
2 Members
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26
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
door Brian Fagan
376 leden
6 besprekingen
½ 3.6
2 Members
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27
The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
door John N. Maclean
52 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Town that Died: a chronicle of the Halifax Disaster
door Michael J. Bird
110 leden
2 besprekingen
3.9
2 Members
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Zeitoun
door Dave Eggers
4,202 leden
181 besprekingen
4.1
2 Members
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Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
door Anthony P. Hatch
71 leden
6 besprekingen
½ 4.3
2 Members
Helcura, oregonobsessionz
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
door Beck Weathers
463 leden
17 besprekingen
3.2
2 Members
Helcura, jackie1966
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Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces
door Robert Clark
236 leden
4 besprekingen
4.1
Member
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
door Denise Gess
229 leden
10 besprekingen
3.8
2 Members
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35
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
door John Barylick
87 leden
13 besprekingen
½ 4.3
2 Members
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36
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
door Daniel James Brown
342 leden
14 besprekingen
4.2
2 Members
Helcura, oregonobsessionz
37
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
door Simon Winchester
2,277 leden
66 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Young Men and Fire
door Norman Maclean
1,216 leden
18 besprekingen
4
2 Members
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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
door John C. Esposito
128 leden
9 besprekingen
4
2 Members
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40
Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
door Nat Brandt
81 leden
3 besprekingen
4
2 Members
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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
door Karen Tintori
97 leden
3 besprekingen
4
2 Members
Helcura, oregonobsessionz
42
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
door Michael Punke
81 leden
3 besprekingen
4
2 Members
Helcura, oregonobsessionz
43
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
door Steve Olson
258 leden
16 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
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44
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
door David Quammen
172 leden
5 besprekingen
4
2 Members
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45
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
door Matthys Levy
603 leden
11 besprekingen
4
Member
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
door David Rutledge
94 leden
5 besprekingen
3.9
Member
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
door Chris Rose
618 leden
27 besprekingen
4.2
Member
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Kleine kans op morgen
door Nathaniel Rich
302 leden
11 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
norabelle414
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Slayers, Saviors, Servants, and Sex: An Exposé of Kingdom Fungi
door David Moore
9 leden
4
Member
aulsmith
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Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
door Robert Polidori
86 leden
2 besprekingen
4.2
Member
aulsmith
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Robert Polidori: After the Flood
door Robert Polidori
72 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.6
Member
aulsmith
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Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery
door Janet F. Kitz
81 leden
6 besprekingen
3.9
Member
SylviaC
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Shifting shores : rising seas, retreating coastlines
door Jeff Hecht
4 leden
1 bespreking
5
Member
aulsmith
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Het volk in de bergen
door Colin M. Turnbull
465 leden
5 besprekingen
4
Member
aulsmith
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The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
door James J. O'Donnell
369 leden
6 besprekingen
3.8
Member
aulsmith
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Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
door Dan Kurzman
123 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
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The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925
door Wallace E. Akin
45 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
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When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
door Brian Hicks
99 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
Helcura
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
door Rachel Slade
238 leden
12 besprekingen
4.1
Member
cataloga
60
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
door Anatoli Boukreev
1,138 leden
30 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
door R. A. Scotti
501 leden
12 besprekingen
4
Member
cataloga
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From the Ashes: The Story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894
door Grace Stageberg Swenson
18 leden
1 bespreking
5
Member
Helcura
64
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
door Timothy Egan
1,431 leden
67 besprekingen
4
Member
oregonobsessionz
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
door Jennifer Niven
652 leden
12 besprekingen
4.1
Member
oregonobsessionz
66
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
door Kate Brown
116 leden
5 besprekingen
4
Member
cataloga
68
Underground
door Haruki Murakami
2,581 leden
60 besprekingen
3.8
Member
Helcura
69
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
door Kate Brown
180 leden
10 besprekingen
4.1
Member
cataloga
70
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
door Kate Brown
57 leden
2 besprekingen
3.9
Member
cataloga
71
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
door Randy Shilts
2,915 leden
63 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Member
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