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Eruption!
Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
Author: Elizabeth RuschIllustrator: Tom Uhlman
| Retail Price: | $26.99 |
| Betabooks Price | $21.59 |
ISBN: 9780547503509
Format: Hardback
Published: October 2013
Published By: ABC Books
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Published: October 2013
Published By: ABC Books
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Titles that are READY TO SHIP will be sent from our warehouse within 2 business days while stocks last. Click here for more details.
Product Description
"At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets." Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide live in volcanic danger zones. In this riveting nonfiction book--filled with spectacular photographs and sidebars--Rusch reveals the perilous, adrenaline-fueled, life-saving work of an international volcano crisis team (VDAP) and the sleeping giants they study, from Colombia to the Philippines, from Chile to Indonesia.