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Synopsis
A description of 15 volcanic eruptions through the centuries, with first-hand accounts of the different ways people reacted to them. It reconstructs the physical experience of eruptions and examines the advances in technology and volcanic surveillance in the 20th century.
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Review
"Gripping and richly illustrated." -- Robert Kunzig, Discover
"I found the accounts of each of these contrasting events compelling and highly informative, from both geological and sociological perspectives ... Scarth is to be congratulated on an excellent book that is easy to read, difficult to put down, and deserving of a very wide audience." -- Peter Cattermole, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
"Informative, fascinating, and sobering for the professional volcanologist, anyone attracted by volcanoes and, indeed, anyone interested in human resourcefulness." -- Hazel Rymer, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Scarth ... has assembled riveting eyewitness accounts from lucky survivors through the ages." -- Laurence A. Marschall, The Sciences
"Scarth's readers will learn what authorities now know about how to predict and prepare for big eruptions, and the riveting accounts he provides of each calamity, eye-witness and secondhand, display the fascination that leads so many scientists to risk their lives to study volcanoes." -- Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Alwyn Scarth was lecturer in geography at the University of Dundee. His most recent book is Savage Earth.
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