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La Catastrophe: The Eruption of Mount Pelee, the Worst Volc
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195218396
ISBN-13
9780195218398
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2271583
Product Key Features
Book Title
Catastrophe : the Eruption of Mount Pelée, the Worst Volcanic Eruption of the Twentieth Century
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
6.1 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-025019
Reviews
"In this quirky but fascinating volume, volcano expert Alwyn Scarth unfolds the story with dramatic flair and exacting detail, reconstructing the days, hours and minutes leading up to the eruption and its horrific aftermath. This study of the horror that befell Saint-Pierre without warning,mercy or escape is well worth pondering."--Seattle Times, "Scarth draws on eyewitness accounts and archives to relate this natural disaster, detailing not only the natural events that led to the explosion but also the political implications."--Library Journal, "In this quirky but fascinating volume, volcano expert Alwyn Scarth unfolds the story with dramatic flair and exacting detail, reconstructing the days, hours and minutes leading up to the eruption and its horrific aftermath. This study of the horror that befell Saint-Pierre without warning, mercy or escape is well worth pondering."--Seattle Times, "By providing a wealth of archival photos from before and after the destruction, Scarth maintains the reader's interest without watering down his formidable knowledge of how volcanoes actually work."--Publishers Weekly, "In this quirky but fascinating volume, volcano expert Alwyn Scarth unfolds the story with dramatic flair and exacting detail, reconstructing the days, hours and minutes leading up to the eruption and its horrific aftermath. This study of the horror that befell Saint-Pierre without warning, mercy or escape is well worth pondering."-- Seattle Times
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On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pelee loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a gripping day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of this devastating eruption, based primarily on chilling eyewitness accounts., On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pelee loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a gripping day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of this devastating eruption, based primarily on chilling eyewitness accounts. Scarth recounts how, for many days before the great eruption, a series of smaller eruptions spewed dust and ash. Then came the eruption. A blinding flash lit up the sky. A tremendous cannonade roared out that was heard in Venezuela. Then a scorching blast of superheated gas and ash shot straight down towards Saint-Pierre, racing down at hundreds of miles an hour. This infernal avalanche of dark, billowing, reddish-violet fumes, flashing lightning, ash and rocks, crashed and rolled headlong, destroying everything in its path--public buildings, private homes, the town hall, the Grand Hotel. Temperatures inside the cloud reached 450 degrees Celsius. Virtually everyone in Saint-Pierre died within minutes. Scarth tells of many lucky escapes--the ship Topaze left just hours before the eruption, a prisoner escaped death in solitary confinement. But these were the fortunate few. An official delegation sent later that day by the mayor of Fort-de-France reported total devastation--no quays, no trees, only shattered facades. Saint-Pierre was a smoldering ruin. In the tradition of A Perfect Storm and Isaac's Storm, but on a much larger scale, La Catastrophe takes readers inside the greatest volcanic eruption of the century and one of the most tragic natural disasters of all time., On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pelée loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a gripping day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of this devastating eruption, based primarily on chilling eyewitness accounts. Scarth recounts how, for many days before the great eruption, a series of smaller eruptions spewed dust and ash. Then came the eruption. A blinding flash lit up the sky. A tremendous cannonade roared out that was heard in Venezuela. Then a scorching blast of superheated gas and ash shot straight down towards Saint-Pierre, racing down at hundreds of miles an hour. This infernal avalanche of dark, billowing, reddish-violet fumes, flashing lightning, ash and rocks, crashed and rolled headlong, destroying everything in its path--public buildings, private homes, the town hall, the Grand Hotel. Temperatures inside the cloud reached 450 degrees Celsius. Virtually everyone in Saint-Pierre died within minutes. Scarth tells of many lucky escapes--the ship Topaze left just hours before the eruption, a prisoner escaped death in solitary confinement. But these were the fortunate few. An official delegation sent later that day by the mayor of Fort-de-France reported total devastation--no quays, no trees, only shattered facades. Saint-Pierre was a smoldering ruin. In the tradition of A Perfect Storm and Isaac's Storm, but on a much larger scale, La Catastrophe takes readers inside the greatest volcanic eruption of the century and one of the most tragic natural disasters of all time.
LC Classification Number
QE523.P3S33 2002
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