Survival Stories of Floods: 15 Books
Fifteen Tales of Catastrophe, Courage, and Endurance Against the Rising WatersBy Schuyler Mrs. Crowninshield, Émile Zola, Logan Marshall, Willis Fletcher Johnson, Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Marshall Ora Leighton, Garrett Putman Serviss, Friedrich Spielhagen, Carolyn Judson Burnett, Herbert active 1909-1917 Carter, William Theophilus Nichols, Victor Appleton, Lawrence J. Leslie, Robert Shaler
Length111h 8m
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Survival Stories of Floods: 15 Books gathers disaster writing into a capacious study of water, catastrophe, endurance, and collective response. Across reportage, travel narrative, popular science, adventure fiction, historical reconstruction, and moral reflection, the volume traces flooding as both a physical event and a test of social institutions. Vivid accounts of inundated landscapes and rescues stand beside analyses of rivers, weather, engineering, and public preparedness, creating a literary context in which sensation, evidence, and imagination continually meet. Its contributors represent an unusually broad turn-of-the-century and early modern field of writers: novelists, journalists, historians, scientific popularizers, explorers, and writers of juvenile adventure. Figures associated with naturalist fiction, public-history writing, archaeology, geography, and technological romance bring distinct habits of observation to the same elemental subject. Their varied approaches align the collection with the period's expanding mass journalism, scientific education, imperial-era travel writing, and reform-minded interest in urban infrastructure and disaster relief. Together, these voices reveal how floods were interpreted through class, place, technology, faith, and civic responsibility. Recommended for readers of environmental humanities, disaster studies, and literary history, this anthology offers a rare opportunity to compare multiple forms of witnessing within one volume. Its breadth makes it valuable both educationally and as a stimulating conversation among narratives of peril, explanation, survival, and remembrance.
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GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length111 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Passaic Flood of 1903
2The Passaic Flood of 1903
3ILLUSTRATIONS.
4DAMAGES.
5GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.
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6The Flood
7The Flood
8I.
9San Isidro
10San Isidro
11I
12III
13VI
14X
15XIII
16XV
17XIX
18The Boy Scouts in the Great Flood
19The Boy Scouts in the Great Flood
20CHAPTER I. SIGNS OF COMING TROUBLE.
21CHAPTER V. SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE.
22CHAPTER X. MR. JASPER CHANGES HIS MIND.
23The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna; or, The Silver Fox Patrol Caught in a Flood
24The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna; or, The Silver Fox Patrol Caught in a Flood
25THE BOY SCOUTS ALONG THE SUSQUEHANNA.
26CHAPTER V. THE CAMP IN THE HAYMOW.
27CHAPTER IX. ANY PORT IN A STORM.
28CHAPTER XIV. STILL SURROUNDED BY PERILS.
29CHAPTER XIX. THE TRAIL OF THE MARAUDER.
30CHAPTER XXIV. THE CAPTURE.
31The Safety First Club and the Flood
32Introduction
33Illustrations
34CHAPTER I THE CLUB CONFERS
35CHAPTER II VARLEY GETS ACQUAINTED
36CHAPTER III UNCOMFORTABLE GLORY
37CHAPTER IV SAM’S COUNSELLOR
38CHAPTER V SNOW-SHOES
39CHAPTER VI A LITTLE LUNCH
40CHAPTER VII THE SHARK LECTURES
41CHAPTER VIII POKE’S MYSTERY
42CHAPTER IX SAM GETS A REMINDER
43CHAPTER X THE BLOW DESCENDS
44CHAPTER XI THE GREAT MINCE PIE OF SUGAR VALLEY
45CHAPTER XII EXPLORING THE VALLEY
46CHAPTER XIII THE SHARK DEMONSTRATES
47CHAPTER XIV THE HUNT
48CHAPTER XV THE HOUSE OF REFUGE
49CHAPTER XVI BLIND TRAILS
50CHAPTER XVII THE RISING FLOOD
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