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Killer 'cane : The Deadly Hurricane of 1928, Paperback by Mykle, Robert, ISBN 158979298X, ISBN-13 9781589792982, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Told through a series of episodic personal accounts, a history of the September 1928 hurricane in the Florida Everglades profiles Palm Beach as a newly settled frontier region that suffered more than 1800 casualties and widespread destruction when the Category 4 Okeechobee Hurricane shifted up from Puerto Rico. Reprint.

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PublisherTaylor Trade Publishing

ISBN-10158979298X

ISBN-139781589792982

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038766124

Product Key Features

Book TitleKiller 'cane : the Deadly Hurricane of 1928

Number of Pages260 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicNatural Disasters, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / General

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, History

AuthorRobert Mykle

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.9 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.5 in

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ReviewsMykle sifted through Florida history "geographic, economic, meteorological and cultural "and quotes from several dozen interviews to tell his story, zeroing in on many of the individuals who affected and were affected by this mind-boggling piece of windy and wet American history. "'I think about it every day,'" survivor Vernie Boots told Mykle. Though this killer hurricane struck nearly 74 years ago, if you read this fast-paced book, you'll have a hard time forgetting it too., Mykle sifted through Florida history--geographic, economic, meteorological and cultural--and quotes from several dozen interviews to tell his story, zeroing in on many of the individuals who affected and were affected by this mind-boggling piece of windy and wet American history. "'I think about it every day,'" survivor Vernie Boots told Mykle. Though this killer hurricane struck nearly 74 years ago, if you read this fast-paced book, you'll have a hard time forgetting it too., The true stories Robert Mykle tells in Killer 'Cane: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928 paint a picture of nature's terrible immensity that's the stuff of nightmares., Mykle does a nice job of portraying Everglades frontier life: the moonshine, the politics, the path of development., This book is a winner. The treatment of individual threads woven into the whole is a good approach and keeps the details alive, effective, and not obscured by the overall event., Mykle tells this saga of epic destruction with short episodes that gradually grow together, like cross-cutting scenes in a movie. The approach, and the book, both work well. Florida history is the better for Mykle's book., Mykle's research provided a window into a disappearing breed of pioneers, who remembered the violent storms and the in-between years when a hardscrabble lifestyle was the norm.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal975.9/39

SynopsisKiller 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression., On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach, Florida. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over 2,000 people. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad., Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades believed that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad in the aftermath. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of one of America's greatest natural disasters, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression. Book jacket., Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a category 4 hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach, killing over 2,500 people in Florida alone, making it the second deadliest storm in U.S. history.