2002, ISBN: 9780815412076

Hardcover

U.k: Grafton Book, 1992. 336 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. The Fabric Of Time Is Wearing Thin. Soon The Walls O Rreality That Seperat… More...

U.k: Grafton Book, 1992. 336 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. The Fabric Of Time Is Wearing Thin. Soon The Walls O Rreality That Seperate Our World From Those That Surround It Wil Fall Away. Then The Hidden Echoes Of Our Past - Mythical Monsters, Creatures Of Nightmare And Barbarian Nordes Will Crash Through The Doorcracks And Lay Waste To Our World.. Reprint. Paperback. As New/None Issued., Grafton Book, 1992, 5, U.k: Grafton Book, 1992. 336 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The Fabric Of Time Is Wearing Thin. Soon The Walls O Rreality That Seperate Our World From Those That Surround It Wil Fall Away. Then The Hidden Echoes Of Our Past - Mythical Monsters, Creatures Of Nightmare And Barbarian Nordes Will Crash Through The Doorcracks And Lay Waste To Our World.. Reprint. Paperback. Fine/None Issued., Grafton Book, 1992, 5, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 235pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Green paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in pink. Light bumps to bottom edge of boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK:Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.(Publisher)., Cooper Square Press, 2002, 3<

2002, ISBN: 9780815412076

New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 235pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers,… More...

New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 235pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Green paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in pink. Light bumps to bottom edge of boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK:Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.(Publisher)., Cooper Square Press, 2002, 3<