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Hurricane Katrina: The Mississippi Story
James Patterson Smith
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Description for Hurricane Katrina: The Mississippi Story
hardcover. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, this title tells the story of people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; HBJK; RNR; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 662.
This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the eye wall and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities. James Patterson Smith takes us through life and death accounts of storm day, August 29, 2005, and the precarious days of food and water shortages that followed. ... Read more
This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the eye wall and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities. James Patterson Smith takes us through life and death accounts of storm day, August 29, 2005, and the precarious days of food and water shortages that followed. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781617030239
SKU
V9781617030239
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Ref
99-10
About James Patterson Smith
James Patterson Smith is professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast campus. He is the author, with Gilbert Mason, of Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle, published by the University Press of Mississippi.
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