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Available Copies: 0 (of 1) Current number of holds: 0
Physical Description: 10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Edition: Unabridged. Publisher, Date: [Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, p2006. Summary: Egan tells an extraordinary tale in this visceral account of how America's great, grassy plains turned to dust, and how the ferocious plains winds stirred up an endless series of "black blizzards" that were like a biblical plague: "Dust clouds boiled up, ten thousand feet or more in the sky, and rolled like moving mountains" in what became known as the Dust Bowl. But the plague was man-made, as Egan shows: the plains weren't suited to farming, and plowing up the grass to plant wheat, along with a confluence of economic disaster -- the Depression, and natural disaster -- eight years of drought, resulted in an ecological and human catastrophe that Egan details with stunning specificity. He grounds his tale in portraits of the people who settled the plains: hardy Americans and immigrants desperate for a piece of land to call their own and lured by the lies of promoters who said the ground was arable. Egan's interviews with survivors produce tales of courage and suffering: Hazel Lucas, for instance, dared to give birth in the midst of the blight only to see her baby die of "dust pneumonia" when her lungs clogged with the airborne dirt. With characters who seem to have sprung from a novel by Sinclair Lewis or Steinbeck, and Egan's powerful writing, this account will long remain in readers' minds. Keywords in Context ... The worst hard time [sound recording (book on CD)] : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan. ...
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Physical Description: 1 sound disc (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Edition: Unabridged. Publisher, Date: [Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, p2006. Keywords in Context ... The worst hard time [sound recording (book on MP3-CD)] : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan. ...
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Available Copies: 8 (of 16) Current number of holds: 0
Physical Description: x, 340 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2006. Keywords in Context ... The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan. ...
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