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Great Disasters And Horrors In The World's History
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by A.H. Godbey
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Cover Type: Paperback with 612 pages
Published by: Godbey Press March 15, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1406765791
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1406765793
Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Description
Text extracted from opening pages of book: GREAT DISASTERS AND HORRORS IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY, A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE NOTABLE CALAMITIES WHICH HAVE BEFALLEN MANKIND IN ALL AGES, BOTH UPON LAND AND SEA. EMBRACING THE LOUISVILLE TORNADO, FLOODS IN THE SOUTH, CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE, JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, STORM ON THE COAST OF SAMOA, NOTED SHIPWRECKS, GREAT FLOODS IN CHINA, HOLLAND AND JAPAN, AND OTHER NOTABLE DISASTERS CAUSED BY STORM, FLOOD AND VOLCANIC ACTION, AND OF THE LAWS OF THE NATDRAL PHENOMENA THAT PRODOCE THEM. COMPRISING THRILLING TALES OF HEROISM, GREAT DESTRUCTION OF TOWNS, CITIES, HOMES AND LIVES, HEART-RENDING SCENES OF AGONY, DREADFUL SUFFERINGS, MIRACULOUS ESCAPES, DARING ADVENTURES, ETC., ETC., TOGETHER WITH NOBLE RESPONSES OF AID. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF METHODS OF PREDICTION, By A. H. OODBE^ Y, A. M., Author of * 4 Stanley In Africa, '' Light In Darkness/ 1 Missions and Missionary Heroes, etc. SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED WITH 150 ENGRAVINGS. PUBLISHED BY ROYAL PUBLISHING - CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. COPYRIGHT, 1890, W. L. HOLLOWAY. PKEFACE. WHATEVER be the ideas of the public upon a glance at the title page of this work, it is not intended to pander to the morbid desire for the sensational or horrible, charac teristic of weak minds. This volume is not a literary morgue. Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment A large proportion of the calam ities reported from day to day are directly due to the haste, greed, and heedlessness of man himself, and need no comment. But there is a large class of disasters, due solely to meteorological or geological conditions, which surpass all others in magnitude and appalling destruction. In such cases men insist on prating about mysterious visitations, as though these occurrences were subject to the dominion of no law. To an examination of such is this book devoted. When in school, the writer was often struck by the persistence with which even the most diligent students would call upon the teachers of physics and chemistry to suspend the recitation and devote the time to illustrative experiments. Physical Geography was constantly pro PBEFACE, nounced very dry, because of the scarcity of oppor tunities for illustration. *. The writer has endeavored to present in a form accept able to the popular palate the general principles of the storm and earthquake so far as they are understood: and numerous narratives of great disturbances have been in serted that a clearer conception of the magnitude of these agencies and their relative importance may be attained by the Deader, Much care has been spent in steering between Scylla and Charybdis. While it has been designed to avoid merely scientific data, there has been the equally delicate task of avoiding prolix narration and mere sensational tales. It is hoped that the result will be useful and interesting, If the book shall lead the reader to higher views of the reign of inexorable law in nature, and to a profounder reverence for the Author of Law and his works, the labor of its compilation will not have been spent in vain. A. H. GODBEY, TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER L MYTHS OP THE WINDS. PAGE. Old Greek fancies Their modern traces Man seeking mysteries PersonificationsThe air-mothers 17 CHAPTEE II. CONSTANT WINDS. Comparative climate Expansive force of heat IllustrationsThe trade-winds Effect of the earth's rotation Eeturn currents and calms 26 CHAPTEE III. PERIODIC WINDS. Modified trade winds The monsoons - Local winds Sea and land breezes The simoom: its terrible effects The khamsin, and similar winds Moisture In the air: its effects-Rain and hail-Clouds: their varieties Mountain winds 34 CHAPTEE IV. TORNADOES AND CYCLONES. Unheeded law Peculiarities of storms Cyclonic storms Theoretical Illustrations A cyclone hot-bed -Traveling of a cyclone Its curves in accordance with law Features of the cyclone's path-Great cyclone of August, 1888 - The planetary equi
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