Author: Sharon Lewis DickersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780945092148
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Mountains of Fire
Author: Sharon Lewis DickersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780945092148
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Fire Mountains of the West
Author: Stephen L. HarrisPublisher: Mountain Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
For general readers or seasoned geologists, Fire Mountains of the West begins with an introduction to volcanoes, the processes that create them, and the glaciers that sculpt them. The heart of the book is a fascinating biography of each of the major volcanoes of the Cascades and Mono Lake area. Dramatic photos and illuminating maps and diagrams illustrate the visible features and hidden activity of these volcanoes. From the subterranean lava tube caves of the Medicine Lake volcano to the fire-and-ice formation of Mount Garibaldi, from the cataclysmic collapse of Crater Lake to the incinerating blast of modern Mount St. Helens, and from deadly volcanic gas presently killing trees at Mammoth Mountain to massive mudflows waiting to burst from Mount Rainier, this book brings to life in dynamic, crystal-clear language the geologic story of our western mountainscape.
Mountains Touched with Fire
Author: Wiley SwordPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312155933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An award-winning historian dramatically recreates a turning point in the Civil War--the battle for the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lively narrative, dozens of previously unpublished photographs, maps, and excerpts from private journals and letters capture every side of this crucial battle whose aftermath sealed the fate of the South.
Fire on the Mountains
Author: Raymond J. DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Fire on the Mountain
Author: Dale A. JohnsonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435739922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Biography of experiences by an American living in Southeast Turkey and Northern Iraq during and after the first Gulf War.
Fire Mountains of the Islands
Author: R. Wally JohnsonPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144231
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.
Bridge of the Gods, Mountains of Fire
Author: Mountains of Fire
Author: Clive OppenheimerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781529351125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Gripping ... a love letter to volcanoes and an investigation into all the ways that they have and continue to sustain humanity' THE ECONOMIST 'Wonderful' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Like a thriller ... Oppenheimer is better than good. This is terrific' SPECTATOR 'What the French adventurer Jacques Cousteau was to the hidden world under our seas, Oppenheimer is to the hidden, molten world bubbling under our feet' SUNDAY TIMES 'Beautiful ... bursting with poetry, with storytelling' WERNER HERZOG __________ We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. No matter where we live on the planet, these fiery mountains have long shaped the path of humanity. World-famous volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer has worked at the crater's edge in the wildest places on Earth. In Mountains of Fire we join him on hair-singeing adventures, close enough to feel the heat of the lava, from Antarctica to Iceland, to learn how deeply our stories are intertwined with volcanoes. __________ 'Full of human feeling and myth ... We can't all travel the globe to risk our lives at the crater's edge, but we have Oppenheimer's prose to get us nearly there' NEW SCIENTIST 'On almost every page of his book ... there is some display of mind-boggling bravado in the face of Earth's pyrotechnics' THE TIMES
Volcanoes!
Author: Eric ArnoldPublisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385374755
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
A volcano could be called a sleeping mountain--that is, until it wakes up! What is it like to witness the eruption of one of nature's majestic time bombs? Young readers can learn what makes volcanoes "tick," and read about some of the most famous eruptions in history.
Fire on the Mountain
Author: Terry BissonPublisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604862580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman’s guerrilla army. Long unavailable in the U.S., published in France as Nova Africa, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.