The Great American Dust Bowl

Type

Book

Authors

Don Brown

ISBN 10

0547815506

ISBN 13

9780547815503

Tags

1900s, Earth Sciences, Comics & Graphic Novels, Historical, United States, Multicultural Stories, History, 20th Century, Earth Science, Disasters

Description

A speck of dust is a tiny thing. In fact, five of them could fit into the period at the end of this sentence. On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions of these specks of dust to form a duster—a savage storm—on America's high southern plains. The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow—people got lost in the gloom and suffocated . . . and that was just the beginning. Don Brown brings the Dirty Thirties to life with kinetic, highly saturated, and lively artwork in this graphic novel of one of America's most catastrophic natural events: the Dust Bowl. - from Amzon

Number of Copies