Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 200
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Trim: 5¾ x 9
978-1-59228-312-5 • Paperback • June 2004 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
978-1-4930-1827-7 • eBook • June 2004 • $9.99 • (£7.99)
Wallace E. Akin was for many years a professor of geography at Drake University. He received a research Fulbright in 1961 at the University of Copenhagen and has traveled widely, studying climate and related human activities. He is the author of several academic books that include material on weather and climate.
List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Without Warning
Chapter 2 - Nature Sets the Stage
Chapter 3 - Touchdown in Missouri
Chapter 4 - The Crossover into Illinois
Chapter 5 - Murphysboro
Chapter 6 - De Soto
Chapter 7 - West Frankfurt
Chapter 8 - Parrish and Eastern Illinois
Chapter 9 - Indiana
Chapter 10 - The Aftermath
Chapter 11 - Other Great Tornadoes
Notes and References
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
Wallace Akin, his mother, and their house were lifted by a tornado that was among the world's most violent. Since that day 77 years ago, when he landed safely with a jolt, that storm has lived within him.
— Des Moines Register
In The Forgotten Storm, Wallace Akin presents eyewitness accounts and a definitive analysis of the nearly one-mile-wide mega twister which ripped through no less than three Midwestern states. Akin's approach firmly reestablishes this disaster's solemn spirit as well as its identity as a standard-setting meteorological event.
— Richard G. Fernicola M.D., author of "Twelve Days of Terror"
Akin's brush with tragedy inspired a lifetime of writing and teaching about weather. His respect for the greatest of all Plains storms is a familiar feeling to all who have lived in this tornado alley.
— Midwest Living