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Film, Video Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, A Vanishing Coast and a Nineteenth Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World

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Title

  • Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, A Vanishing Coast and a Nineteenth Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World

Summary

  • In the mid-19th century, the Isle Derniere was emerging as an exclusive summer resort near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. About 100 miles from New Orleans, it attracted the most prominent members of antebellum Louisiana society. Without warning, on Aug. 10, 1856, a ferocious hurricane swept across the island, killing half of its 400 inhabitants. Sallenger traces the link between the environmental deaths across the Mississippi delta and the human deaths that occurred when the storm swept ashore. The result is a fascinating portrait of a coast in perpetual motion and a rising sea that made the Isle Derniere particularly vulnerable to a great hurricane. According to Sallenger, "In the end this is the story of an island dying. And it is a story that is not over. Between the 1890s and 1988, the Isle Derniere retreated landward about two-thirds of a mile while losing three-quarters of its surface area. At its heart lies the image of a warmer world - and of what our children and grandchildren may endure from future hurricanes coming ashore on rapidly rising seas."

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2010-03-16.

Headings

  • -  Education
  • -  Environment, Conservation

Notes

  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Abby Sallenger.
  • -  Recorded on 2010-03-16.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688408

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, A Vanishing Coast and a Nineteenth Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-16, 2010. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688408/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. (2010) Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, A Vanishing Coast and a Nineteenth Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-16. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688408/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, A Vanishing Coast and a Nineteenth Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-16, 2010. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688408/>.