La catastrophe : the eruption of Mount Pelee, the worst volcanic eruption of the twentieth century /...
La catastrophe : the eruption of Mount Pelee, the worst volcanic eruption of the twentieth century /...
La catastrophe : the eruption of Mount Pelee, the worst volcanic eruption of the twentieth century / Alwyn Scarth.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N972.982/3
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English
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Physical content
ix, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Prelude -- 3. The eruption begins -- 4. An election and other activities -- 5. Safety in Saint-Pierre -- 6. The first victims of the eruption -- 7. A message from the mayor -- 8. "What better place to be ..." -- 9. Ascension Day dawns -- 10. The nuee ardente -- 11. Escape -- 12...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2002.
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"On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean Island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pelee loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of this devastating eruption, based primaril...
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La catastrophe : the eruption of Mount Pelee, the worst volcanic eruption of the twentieth century / Alwyn Scarth.
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N972.982/3
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74Vvj0GBZNEZ
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ISBN
0195218396 (cloth)
9780195218398 (cloth)
DDC
972.982
MMS ID
991015286999702626
