Disaster Books

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Some of the best books about disasters...of all types.
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Op i det blå
af Jon Krakauer
14,156 medlemmer
317 anmeldelser
4.2
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
af John M. Barry
4,334 medlemmer
135 anmeldelser
3.9
7 Members
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Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
af David Von Drehle
1,217 medlemmer
34 anmeldelser
3.9
5 Members
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
af Simon Winchester
4,166 medlemmer
122 anmeldelser
3.8
5 Members
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea
af Sebastian Junger
6,179 medlemmer
93 anmeldelser
3.9
5 Members
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards : Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
af Jay Feldman
327 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
af Svetlana Alexievich
2,364 medlemmer
80 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
4 Members
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Flu
af Gina Kolata
1,281 medlemmer
35 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
5 Members
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
af Jared M. Diamond
12,264 medlemmer
184 anmeldelser
3.9
4 Members
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
af Sheri Fink
1,536 medlemmer
169 anmeldelser
4.1
4 Members
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
af Erik Larson
4,100 medlemmer
136 anmeldelser
4
4 Members
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The Children's Blizzard
af David Laskin
1,698 medlemmer
77 anmeldelser
4
4 Members
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The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
af Stewart O'Nan
588 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
4
4 Members
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
af David Cowan
236 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
4 Members
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Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
af Laura M. Mac Donald
444 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
4.1
4 Members
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
af Stephen Puleo
741 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
3.9
4 Members
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The Johnstown Flood
af David McCullough
2,286 medlemmer
74 anmeldelser
4
3 Members
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
af John Kelly
1,668 medlemmer
59 anmeldelser
3.9
3 Members
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En nat man husker
af Walter Lord
3,012 medlemmer
63 anmeldelser
4.1
3 Members
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102 minutter
af Jim Dwyer
1,369 medlemmer
50 anmeldelser
4.1
3 Members
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22
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
af Gary Krist
322 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
3 Members
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The Triangle Fire
af Leon Stein
109 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.2
3 Members
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24
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
af John M. Barry
1,431 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
4.2
3 Members
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25
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
af Douglas Brinkley
857 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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26
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
af Brian Fagan
376 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
2 Members
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27
The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
af John N. Maclean
52 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
2 Members
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28
The Town that Died: a chronicle of the Halifax Disaster
af Michael J. Bird
110 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
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Zeitoun
af Dave Eggers
4,226 medlemmer
182 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
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Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
af Anthony P. Hatch
72 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
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31
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
af Beck Weathers
473 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
3.2
2 Members
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Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces
af Robert Clark
237 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
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Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World
af Abby Sallenger
37 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
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34
Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
af Denise Gess
232 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
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35
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
af John Barylick
87 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
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36
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
af Daniel James Brown
351 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
af Simon Winchester
2,294 medlemmer
67 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Young Men and Fire
af Norman Maclean
1,224 medlemmer
18 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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39
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
af John C. Esposito
128 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
af Nat Brandt
82 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
af Karen Tintori
97 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
af Michael Punke
81 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
af Steve Olson
268 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
af David Quammen
176 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
af Matthys Levy
606 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
af David Rutledge
93 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
af Chris Rose
624 medlemmer
27 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
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Morgendagens odds
af Nathaniel Rich
305 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
Member
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Slayers, Saviors, Servants, and Sex: An Exposé of Kingdom Fungi
af David Moore
9 medlemmer
4
Member
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50
Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
af Robert Polidori
86 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
aulsmith
51
Robert Polidori: After the Flood
af Robert Polidori
72 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.6
Member
aulsmith
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Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery
af Janet F. Kitz
81 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
SylviaC
53
Shifting shores : rising seas, retreating coastlines
af Jeff Hecht
5 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
5
Member
aulsmith
54
The Mountain People
af Colin M. Turnbull
470 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
Member
aulsmith
55
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
af James J. O'Donnell
372 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
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56
Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
af Dan Kurzman
122 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
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57
The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925
af Wallace E. Akin
46 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
Member
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58
When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
af Brian Hicks
99 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
Helcura
59
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
af Rachel Slade
243 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
cataloga
60
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
af Anatoli Boukreev
1,147 medlemmer
31 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
af R. A. Scotti
506 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
4
Member
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62
From the Ashes: The Story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894
af Grace Stageberg Swenson
18 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
5
Member
Helcura
63
This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
af Mark Molesky
80 medlemmer
½ 3.7
Member
cataloga
64
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
af Timothy Egan
1,438 medlemmer
67 anmeldelser
4
Member
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65
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
af Jennifer Niven
653 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
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66
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
af Kate Brown
119 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
Member
cataloga
67
The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic was Lost
af Daniel Allen Butler
109 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
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68
Underground
af Haruki Murakami
2,603 medlemmer
61 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
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69
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
af Kate Brown
183 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
cataloga
70
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
af Kate Brown
57 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
cataloga
71
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
af Randy Shilts
2,939 medlemmer
64 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
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72
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
af John U. Bacon
353 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
4
Member
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