Mountains of Fire
Author: Sharon Lewis Dickerson
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780945092148
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Fire Mountains of the West
Author: Stephen L. Harris
Publisher: Mountain Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Sword
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1997-04-15
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780312155933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Lively narrative, dozens of previously unpublished photographs, maps, and excerpts from private journals and letters capture every side of this crucial battle whose aftermath sealed the fate of the South.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 Mountains of the Islands
Author: R. Wally Johnson
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2013-12-18
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1922144231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Fire on the Mountains
Fire on the Mountain
Author: Dale A. Johnson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-08-28
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1435739922
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Mountains of Fire
Author: Clive Oppenheimer
Publisher:
Published: 2024-08-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781529351125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'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
Fire on the Mountain
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House India
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 8184003269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gone are the days when Nanda Kaul watched over her family and played the part of Vice-Chancellor’s wife. Leaving her children behind in the real world, the busier world, she has chosen to spend her last years alone in the mountains in Kasauli, in a secluded bungalow called Carignano. Until one summer her great-granddaughter Raka is dispatched to Kasauli – and everything changes. Nanda is at first dismayed at this break in her preciously acquired solitude. Fiercely taciturn, Raka is, like her, quite untamed. The girl prefers the company of apricot trees and animals to her great-grandmother’s, and spends her afternoons rambling over the mountainside. But the two are more alike than they know. Throughout the hot, long summer, Nanda’s old, hidden dependencies and wounds come to the surface, ending, inevitably, in tragedy. Marvellous yet restrained, Fire on the Mountain speaks of the past and its unshakable hold over the present.
Volcanoes!
Author: Eric Arnold
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-10-30
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 0385374755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: P. D. Singer
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press LLC
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781613725788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Take a break from academics, enjoy the Colorado Rockies, fight a fire now and then. That's all Jake Landon expected when he signed up to be a ranger. He'll partner with some crusty old mountain man; they'll patrol the wilderness in a tanker, speak three words a day, and Old Crusty won't be alluring at all. Except Old Crusty turns out to be Kurt Carlson: confident, competent, and experienced. Soon Jake is fighting a fire of an entirely different sort.
