The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities

Tidwell, Mike

ISBN 10: 074329470X / ISBN 13: 9780743294706

Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: Free Press, 2006

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A fine copy in a fine, mylar protected DJ. 2nd printing. Personalized, inscribed and signed by author on the title page; 8vo., 196 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
• Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Free Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074329470X
• ISBN 13: 9780743294706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • SIGNED BOOKS
  • SCIENCE

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Synopsis

Predicts a rise in ocean levels throughout the next few decades and more catastrophic weather patterns that are threatening some of the nation's largest cities, identifying the consequences of the past century's consumption of fossil fuels.

About the Author

Mike Tidwell predicted in vivid detail the Katrina hurricane disaster in his 2003 book, Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast. He has written five books centered on the themes of travel and nature. These include Amazon Stranger (detailing efforts to save the Ecuadorian rain forest) and In the Mountains of Heaven (travels to exotic lands across the globe). Tidwell has won four Lowell Thomas awards, the highest prize in American travel journalism, and is a former grantee of the National Endowment for the Arts. His articles have appeared in many national publications. Tidwell is also founder and director of the U.S. Climate Emergency Council, based in Takoma Park, Maryland. A native of Georgia, he now lives in Maryland with his nine-year-old son, Sasha.