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Books about floods

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1tymfos
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 4, 2016, 10:57 pm

With all the awful flooding that's struck the Mississippi basin this month, and also in northern England recently, and the South a while back -- lots of floods recently -- I thought it would be a good time to discuss books about floods. Has anyone read any good ones?

I read a lot of disaster books, but I haven't read many about floods except for the books about hurricanes -- which sure bring lots of flooding, but also wind damage. I can't recall any books I've read just about flooding, except for The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough, which was very good.

I just got this month's free e-book from University of Chicago Press, and it's The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 by David Welky. I have no idea if it's any good, but it sounds interesting.

Does anyone else have any good books about floods to recommend?

ETA to add I see I have one book on my library wishlist called Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry. Has anybody read that one?

22wonderY
tammikuu 29, 2016, 1:53 pm

I tend to collect original source books on disasters. Lowell Thomas reported on the 1937 flood in Hungry Waters.

Willis Fletcher Johnson capitalized on the world's curiosity about the Johnstown flood - The History of the Johnstown Flood. It's very lurid and sensationalist.

I think my interest was piqued when we went through the flood of 1985, and photos were collected by Bob Teets in a couple of volumes called Killing Waters.

4oregonobsessionz
huhtikuu 11, 2016, 3:43 am

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink describes conditions in Memorial Hospital in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane itself is not a major factor in this book - the hospital was in a low lying area that had flooded before, and the story is about decisions and actions taken in response to the emergency.

5tymfos
huhtikuu 11, 2016, 7:47 pm

>4 oregonobsessionz: You're right, I forgot about that one. It's a very good book, and much more about flooding than the actual hurricane.