Reading theme for February 2010

Suggested reading:

A furnace afloat : the wreck of the Hornet and the harrowing 4,300-mile voyage of its survivors

Wave of destruction : the stories of four families and history’s deadliest tsunami

Miracle in the Andes : 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home

On a wing and a prayer : interviews with airline disaster survivors

Nine minutes, twenty seconds : the tragedy and triumph of ASA flight 529

Titanic survivor : the newly discovered memoirs of Violet Jessop, who survived both the Titanic and Britannic disasters

Capsized

Alive : the story of the Andes survivors

Adrift : seventy-six days lost at sea

Desperate journey, abandoned souls : true stories of castaways and other survivors

Miracles on the water : the heroic survivors of a World War II U-boat attack

Storm tactics handbook : modern methods of heaving-to for survival in extreme conditions

Soul surfer : a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board

The survivors club : the secrets and science that could save your life

Death raft : the human drama of the Medusa shipwreck

Gales of November : the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

In harm’s way : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors

Killer weather : stories of great disasters

The great international disaster book

The greatest disasters of the 20th century (1975)

The end of the world : a history

Eye of the storm : inside the world’s deadliest hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards

Black cloud : the great Florida hurricane of 1928

Divine wind : the history and science of hurricanes

The great deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Category 5 : the story of Camille, lessons unlearned from America’s most violent hurricane

Isaac’s storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history