Terra: Tales of the Earth - Hardcover

Richard Hamblyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330490737 ISBN 13: 9780330490733

Publisher: Picador, 2009

Synopsis

Rare Book

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Review:

`[A] thoughtful account of four famous episodes of natural disaster . . . Each horrendous event stimulated yet another step in the systematic attempts to understand why such things happened, and how they might be confronted. What emerges most powerfully from this beautifully written, richly detailed and brilliantly judged book, however, is how much we so often choose not to learn from such events.'
--Guardian

`Hamblyn's book is continuously alert to the narrative potential in these earth-shattering episodes . . . We cannot hold back the tectonic plates or stem the lava flow, but de Pombal and Franklin still have much to teach us when it comes to preparing for the next catastrophe. The event itself, as Hamblyn points out, is rarely as disastrous as the decision we make before or after it happens.'
--Sunday Telegraph

Book Description:

Human responses to natural disasters

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0330490737
• ISBN 13: 9780330490733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320