ISBN: 9781565547667

In the tragedy of the Galveston hurricane of 1900 -- the most fatal natural disaster in U. S. history -- more than 6,000 souls perished. Yet that number would have nearly doubled had it n… Mehr…

In the tragedy of the Galveston hurricane of 1900 -- the most fatal natural disaster in U. S. history -- more than 6,000 souls perished. Yet that number would have nearly doubled had it not been for the efforts of Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline.But who was this man so inextricably linked to the storm of the century?Quite simply, Cline was the weather-forecasting pioneer who would become the world's foremost authority on hurricanes, or tropical cyclones, as they were called.And, yet, this complex man who plumbed the depths of the most powerful forces of nature also lovingly and painstakingly restored early American portraits, and his extensive collection helped form the nucleus of the National Portrait Gallery.Cline was a man of extremes . . . and of extreme passions, abilities, and accomplishments. Media > Book<

ISBN: 9781565547667

In the tragedy of the Galveston hurricane of 1900 -- the most fatal natural disaster in U. S. history -- more than 6,000 souls perished. Yet that number would have nearly doubled had it n… Mehr…

In the tragedy of the Galveston hurricane of 1900 -- the most fatal natural disaster in U. S. history -- more than 6,000 souls perished. Yet that number would have nearly doubled had it not been for the efforts of Dr. Isaac Monroe Cline.But who was this man so inextricably linked to the storm of the century?Quite simply, Cline was the weather-forecasting pioneer who would become the world's foremost authority on hurricanes, or tropical cyclones, as they were called.And, yet, this complex man who plumbed the depths of the most powerful forces of nature also lovingly and painstakingly restored early American portraits, and his extensive collection helped form the nucleus of the National Portrait Gallery.Cline was a man of extremes . . . and of extreme passions, abilities, and accomplishments. Media > Book<