Great disasters (Reader's Digest general books)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
089577321X
ISBN 13
9780895773210
Category
History - World
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Publication Year
1989
Publisher
Pages
320
Tags
Description
Drought . . . Famine . . . Plague . . . and Pestilence. Earthquakes . . . Landslides . . . Floods . . . Fires . . . and deadly Twisters. Nature unleashes her fury swiftly, often without warning . . . changing lives, history, the earth itself in the process.
In the spellbinding pages of Great Disasters, nearly 80 of nature's catastrophes are brought vividly to life. You'll travel down the centuries, witnessing hairbreadth escapes, marveling at true feats of heroism in the face of destruction, and learning how and why natural disasters occur.
Open to any page and you'll find yourself right in the thick of a crisis: at the burning of Nero's Rome . . . in a Europe gripped by the Black Death . . . at the awesome explosion of Krakatoa . . . aboard the sinking Titanic . . . in the deadly path of Vera, Japan's super typhoon . . . or in the very vortex of a midwestern twister.
Through vivid eyewitness reports, you'll feel the heat of the great Chicago fire . . . tremble as the earth moves under a doomed San Francisco . . . and lament the fate of innocents in an avalanche in Peru. You'll cheer, too, as against all odds tiny infants are plucked from the ruins of a Mexico City hospital leveled by a killer quake.
Each compelling article has been carefully researched and illustrated. And more than 300 photographs, prints, and paintings, many commissioned by Reader's Digest, highlight chilling examples of nature's forces. Throughout the book, a wealth of facts and features will broaden your understanding of nature's ways:
-Science boxes illustrated with informative diagrams explain the causes of natural disasters and show how scientists try to control - or at least predict - the rampages of nature.
-Special boxes cover related cataclysms.
-Locator maps pinpoint where major disasters have occurred.
-An exhaustive Catalog of Catastrophes lists scores of disasters past and present, along with thumbnail summaries of their devastating effects.
Who has watched television coverage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens or the floods in Bangladesh and not been shocked by nature's wrath? Who can fail to be fascinated by the capricious strikes of tornadoes, lightning, and quakes? Whether read from cover to cover or dipped into for a few exciting, enlightening moments at a time, Great Disasters brings you close to nature as you may never experience her, in all her awe-inspiring fury.
Taken from the inside flaps.
In the spellbinding pages of Great Disasters, nearly 80 of nature's catastrophes are brought vividly to life. You'll travel down the centuries, witnessing hairbreadth escapes, marveling at true feats of heroism in the face of destruction, and learning how and why natural disasters occur.
Open to any page and you'll find yourself right in the thick of a crisis: at the burning of Nero's Rome . . . in a Europe gripped by the Black Death . . . at the awesome explosion of Krakatoa . . . aboard the sinking Titanic . . . in the deadly path of Vera, Japan's super typhoon . . . or in the very vortex of a midwestern twister.
Through vivid eyewitness reports, you'll feel the heat of the great Chicago fire . . . tremble as the earth moves under a doomed San Francisco . . . and lament the fate of innocents in an avalanche in Peru. You'll cheer, too, as against all odds tiny infants are plucked from the ruins of a Mexico City hospital leveled by a killer quake.
Each compelling article has been carefully researched and illustrated. And more than 300 photographs, prints, and paintings, many commissioned by Reader's Digest, highlight chilling examples of nature's forces. Throughout the book, a wealth of facts and features will broaden your understanding of nature's ways:
-Science boxes illustrated with informative diagrams explain the causes of natural disasters and show how scientists try to control - or at least predict - the rampages of nature.
-Special boxes cover related cataclysms.
-Locator maps pinpoint where major disasters have occurred.
-An exhaustive Catalog of Catastrophes lists scores of disasters past and present, along with thumbnail summaries of their devastating effects.
Who has watched television coverage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens or the floods in Bangladesh and not been shocked by nature's wrath? Who can fail to be fascinated by the capricious strikes of tornadoes, lightning, and quakes? Whether read from cover to cover or dipped into for a few exciting, enlightening moments at a time, Great Disasters brings you close to nature as you may never experience her, in all her awe-inspiring fury.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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