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On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pele loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and levelled 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.
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Alwyn Scarth has written extensively on volcanology. As a geographer he never forgets the crucial place of the human factor in understanding natural events and their consequences.
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- PublisherLiverpool University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1903544114
- ISBN 13 9781903544112
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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