Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina And New Orleans
by:
Don Brown
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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780544157774
- Categories Architecture and Design, BX, BXOS, Don Brown, F YA, H/C, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Lifestyle, RM 10 - RM 19.99
- Author(s) Don Brown
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Pages 96
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 26.7cm x 1.1cm x 17.5cm
- Weight 0.465 kg
product description
Sibert Honor Medalist ? Kirkus' Best of 2015 list ? School Library Journal Best of 2015 ? Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list ? Horn Book Fanfare Book ? Booklist Editor's Choice
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage--and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality.
Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.
