An utterly unique history of the Great Hurricane that devastated the New England coast in September, 1938. The event comes alive with photographs and maps, detailed descriptions of the damage, two scientific summaries of the storm's effects on the Rhode Island shoreline.

Hurricane in Southern New England: An Analysis of the Great Storm of 1938

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Americas

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Secret Lives of Fishes

Sports & Outdoors

Gordon, Bernard L.

Field Guides

Draggerman's Haul: The Personal History of a Connecticut Fishing Captain

Biographies & Memoirs

Thompson, Ellery

Historical

Emily Kimbrough, one of America's great travel writers, takes an unforgettable trip down the Seine River through through Paris and into the Champagne and Bourgogne regions of France.

Floating Island

Literature & Fiction

Kimbroug

History & Criticism

The definitive study of the geology of Eastern Long Island. Professor Sirkin traces the geologic history of this unique area from the Proterozoic Age forward. The book contains fascinating notes from some of Professor Sirkin's extensive field trips through Eastern Long Island.

Eastern Long Island Geology: History, Processes & Field Trips (Coastal Geology)

Science & Math

Sirkin, Les

Earth Sciences

This is, happily, another of Emily Kimbrough's delightful travel books, this time about a two-week cruise on a converted barge on the river Shannon, in Ireland. As the eight passengers hurried to board a Killaloe, the owner commented, "Time enough." And so there was, for what amounted to a suspension of time with no thought of clocks or calendars, just the quiet, constant beauty of the passing Irish scenery.

Time Enough

KIMBROUGH, Emily

<p>The definitive book on the geology of Block Island, RI. Traces the entire geologic history of this unique ground from Proterozoic Age forward.</p>

Black Island Geology: History Processes & Field Excursions

<p>Draggerman's haul is the personal history of a Connecticut fishing captain. Captain Thompson was born to the sea, of generations of New England sailors and fishermen. At fifteen he was fishing out of New London aboard his father's boat. At twenty he owned his first Dragger (a commercial trawler.) Still an active draggerman aboard his own vessel, at fifty he can look back on 35 years of adventure on sea and land, and he writes of them with gusto and originality. The story of the baby whale which helped to make Quiambaug famous, of the wreck of the Alice and Jennie, of the dramatic death at sea of the author's younger brother, of how a circus bareback rider named Flo taught the youthful Ellery some of life's facts, and much much more!</p>

A brief history of Stonington, Connecticut, from the arrival of the first settlers in 1649 to the present day.

The Fine Old Town of Stonington

Crandall, Katherine

Ocean Sciences, Resources, & Technology: A Guide to the Sea

Gordon, Bernard Ludwig

Gordon, Joseph

Charlier, Roger Henri

Nature & Ecology

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