America's great disasters

By Sandler, Martin W.

Publishers Summary:
Examines the causes and effects of such American disasters as the sinking of the steamboat Sultana in 1871, the Johnstown Flood, the Dust Bowl, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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ISBN
978-0-06029-108-2
Publisher
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2003.


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Reviewed on August 1, 2003

Gr 5-7 Dramatic material, archival photographs, and an accessible text combine to create an appealing title. The nine chapters cover calamities at sea, floods, droughts and dust, fire, hurricanes, blizzards, disease, earthquakes, and volcanoes. The short chapters are filled with interesting facts focusing on a particular event, but ofte...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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