Terra Tales of the Earth
Richard Hamblyn
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Title: Terra Tales of the Earth
Publisher: Picador Publishing, LONDON
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition.
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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
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