Drowned city Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One tho...
| Main Author: | Brown, Don, 1949- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2015.
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| Summary: |
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage -- and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans. |
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| Physical Description: |
96 pages : chiefly color illustrations, 27 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96). |
| ISBN: |
9780544157774 (hardcover) 054415777X (hardcover) |
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