Disaster Books

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Some of the best books about disasters...of all types.
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Aria sottile
di Jon Krakauer
14,065 utenti
313 recensioni
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
di John M. Barry
4,303 utenti
134 recensioni
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Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
di David Von Drehle
1,212 utenti
34 recensioni
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
di Simon Winchester
4,138 utenti
122 recensioni
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Tempesta perfetta: una storia vera i uomini contro il mare
di Sebastian Junger
6,128 utenti
93 recensioni
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Preghiera per Černobyl'
di Svetlana Alexievich
2,333 utenti
78 recensioni
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Collasso: come le società scelgono di morire o vivere
di Jared M. Diamond
12,207 utenti
183 recensioni
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
di Sheri Fink
1,523 utenti
168 recensioni
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
di Erik Larson
4,065 utenti
136 recensioni
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The Children's Blizzard
di David Laskin
1,687 utenti
76 recensioni
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The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
di Stewart O'Nan
584 utenti
26 recensioni
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
di David Cowan
236 utenti
12 recensioni
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Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
di Laura M. Mac Donald
443 utenti
21 recensioni
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
di Stephen Puleo
737 utenti
32 recensioni
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The Johnstown Flood
di David McCullough
2,259 utenti
72 recensioni
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La peste nera
di John Kelly
1,651 utenti
59 recensioni
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Titanic. La vera storia
di Walter Lord
2,975 utenti
63 recensioni
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102 minuti
di Jim Dwyer
1,364 utenti
50 recensioni
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
di Gary Krist
319 utenti
11 recensioni
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The Triangle Fire
di Leon Stein
108 utenti
1 recensione
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
di John M. Barry
1,421 utenti
26 recensioni
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
di Douglas Brinkley
851 utenti
19 recensioni
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
di Brian Fagan
377 utenti
6 recensioni
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The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
di John N. Maclean
52 utenti
2 recensioni
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The Town that Died: a chronicle of the Halifax Disaster
di Michael J. Bird
110 utenti
2 recensioni
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Zeitoun
di Dave Eggers
4,200 utenti
181 recensioni
4.1
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Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
di Anthony P. Hatch
71 utenti
6 recensioni
½ 4.3
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A un soffio dalla fine
di Beck Weathers
463 utenti
17 recensioni
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Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces
di Robert Clark
236 utenti
4 recensioni
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
di Denise Gess
229 utenti
10 recensioni
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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
di John Barylick
87 utenti
13 recensioni
½ 4.3
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
di Daniel James Brown
342 utenti
14 recensioni
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
di Simon Winchester
2,276 utenti
66 recensioni
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Young Men and Fire
di Norman Maclean
1,216 utenti
18 recensioni
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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
di John C. Esposito
128 utenti
9 recensioni
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
di Nat Brandt
81 utenti
3 recensioni
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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
di Karen Tintori
97 utenti
3 recensioni
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
di Michael Punke
81 utenti
3 recensioni
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
di Steve Olson
258 utenti
16 recensioni
½ 3.7
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
di David Quammen
172 utenti
5 recensioni
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Perche gli edifici cadono
di Matthys Levy
601 utenti
11 recensioni
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
di David Rutledge
94 utenti
5 recensioni
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
di Chris Rose
618 utenti
27 recensioni
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Odds against Tomorrow
di Nathaniel Rich
302 utenti
11 recensioni
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Slayers, Saviors, Servants, and Sex: An Exposé of Kingdom Fungi
di David Moore
9 utenti
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Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
di Robert Polidori
86 utenti
2 recensioni
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Robert Polidori: After the Flood
di Robert Polidori
72 utenti
1 recensione
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Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery
di Janet F. Kitz
81 utenti
6 recensioni
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Shifting shores : rising seas, retreating coastlines
di Jeff Hecht
4 utenti
1 recensione
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The Mountain People
di Colin M. Turnbull
465 utenti
5 recensioni
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The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
di James J. O'Donnell
369 utenti
6 recensioni
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Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
di Dan Kurzman
123 utenti
4 recensioni
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The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925
di Wallace E. Akin
45 utenti
1 recensione
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When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
di Brian Hicks
99 utenti
4 recensioni
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
di Rachel Slade
238 utenti
12 recensioni
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
di Anatoli Boukreev
1,137 utenti
30 recensioni
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
di R. A. Scotti
501 utenti
12 recensioni
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From the Ashes: The Story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894
di Grace Stageberg Swenson
18 utenti
1 recensione
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
di Timothy Egan
1,431 utenti
67 recensioni
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
di Jennifer Niven
652 utenti
12 recensioni
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Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
di Kate Brown
116 utenti
5 recensioni
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Underground
di Haruki Murakami
2,581 utenti
60 recensioni
3.8
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
di Kate Brown
178 utenti
10 recensioni
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Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
di Kate Brown
57 utenti
2 recensioni
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
di Randy Shilts
2,915 utenti
63 recensioni
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