Eruption The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
, by Olson, SteveNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780393353587 | 0393353583
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/7/2017
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington State. Still, no one was prepared when a cataclysmic eruption blew the top off of the mountain, laying waste to hundreds of square miles of land and killing fifty-seven people. Steve Olson interweaves vivid personal stories with the history, science, and economic forces that influenced the fates and futures of those around the volcano. Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative of an event that changed the course of volcanic science, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.