A graphic, chilling portrait of one of the great natural disasters of the last century turns the clock back a century to the eruption at Mt. Pelee in 1902 that killed 27,000 people on the island of Martinique.
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Alwyn Scarth was Professor of Geography at the University of Dundee, in Scotland. He is the author ofVulcan's Fury: Man Against the Volcano and Savage Earth and co-author ofVolcanoes of Europe.
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Descrizione libro Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2002. Hardback. Condizione: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pel e 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. Codice articolo APC9780195218398
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