Description
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington State. Still, no one was prepared when a cataclysmic eruption blew the top off of the mountain, laying waste to hundreds of square miles of land and killing fifty-seven people. Steve Olson interweaves vivid personal stories with the history, science, and economic forces that influenced the fates and futures of those around the volcano. Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative of an event that changed the course of volcanic science, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.
Author: Steve Olson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780393353587
Language: English
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