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Indelible Ink
- Author
- Richard Kluger
- Narrator
- Tom Perkins
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 13 September 2016
- Run Time
- 13 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Shedding new light on the cataclysm, author Steve Olson interweaves the history and science behind this event with page-turning accounts of what happened to those who lived and those who died.
Rich with vivid personal stories of lumber tycoons, loggers, volcanologists, and conservationists, Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative built from the testimonies of those closest to the disaster, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.
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- Author
- Richard Kluger
- Narrator
- Tom Perkins
- Duration
- 13 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 September 2016
- ISBN
- 9781681682419
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- History, Human rights, civil rights, Jurisprudence and general issues, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, History of the Americas, Politics and government, Ethical issues: censorship
Synopsis
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was prepared when an immense eruption took the top off of the mountain and laid waste to hundreds of square miles of verdant forests in southwestern Washington State. The eruption was one of the largest in human history, deposited ash in eleven U.S. states and five Canadian provinces, and caused more than one billion dollars in damage. It killed fifty-seven people, some as far as thirteen miles away from the volcano's summit. Shedding new light on the cataclysm, author Steve Olson interweaves the history and science behind this event with page-turning accounts of what happened to those who lived and those who died. Rich with vivid personal stories of lumber tycoons, loggers, volcanologists, and conservationists, Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative built from the testimonies of those closest to the disaster, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.
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