Natural Disasters
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Fire
$17.99 Add to cartA riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely essay about war-torn Afghanistan — a superb eyewit
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0060088613
- Language: English
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No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado del Ruiz
$14.99 Add to cartIn 1985 in Columbia, more than 23,000 people died due to the government’s failure to take seriously scientists’ warnings about an imminent volcanic eruption at Nevado del Ruiz. In 1993, at Volc?n Gale… [more below]
- Author: Bruce, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0060958901
- Language: English
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Nightshining
$20.00 Add to cart“Jennifer Kabat’s Nightshining sifts a riveting expos? of the Cold War technocratic fantasy-state through lyrical family memoir. Her superb investigation calls to mind those of Rebecca Solnit and Erro… [more below]
- Author: Kabat, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1639550704
- Language: English
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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next
$31.00 Add to cartThis informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hurricane… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1469666308
- Language: English
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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
$24.95 Add to cartColossal trees snap like matchsticks. A gigantic orange fireball explodes in the funnel’s black core. Horses are sucked up and spit out alive by 200-mile-per-hour winds. These were just a few of the s… [more below]
- Author: Menninger, Bonar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934572497
- Language: English
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
$18.95 Read moreWeaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, … [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1631499068
- Language: English
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Living Yellowstone: The Park 10 and 25 Years After the Fires
$19.95 Read moreYellowstone, the oldest national park in the world, is not only one of the most wonderful places on earth, but also one of the most active. By comparing pictures taken at the same places at different … [more below]
- Author: Pierre, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1591521823
- Language: English
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This Is Wildfire: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat
$27.99 Read moreFinalist for the Western Writers of the West Spur Award
A practical guide for living with wildfire, including essential history and science, actions you can take to protect your home, and guiding prin- Author: Mott, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730796
- Language: English
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What Stands in a Storm: A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History
$18.99 Add to cartEnter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller–A Perfect Storm on land–that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-da… [more below]
- Author: Cross, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1476763070
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance: The Science and Wonder of Arizona Lightning
$32.99 Add to cart- Author: Holle, Ronald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 3031198786
- Language: English
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The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes
$30.00 Add to cartBraiding together illustration, observation, and reportage, artist and naturalist Robin Lee Carlson offers a watershed work that will forever change how we live with wildfire in the West.
When the natu… [more below]
- Author: Carlson, Robin Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 159714584X
- Language: English
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A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche
$17.99 Add to cartThis “mesmerizing tale of human courage and heroism” (Nando Parrado, author of Miracle in the Andes) follows the astonishing ordeal of survival during an avalanche in California.
In 1982, at the Alpi- Author: Woodlief, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416546944
- Language: English
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The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast
$19.95 Add to cartThe Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast is the gripping story of the geological discoveries–and the scientists who uncovered them–that signal the imminence of a catastrophic tsunami on the Nort… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0870717324
- Language: English
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The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
$18.99 Add to cart“Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.”–National Geographic Adventure
The Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near the Canadian border of Washington began- Author: MacLean, John N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0805083308
- Language: English
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
$20.99 Add to cart“Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination.” —Chicago Sun-Times
On October 8, 1871–the s- Series: Wisconsin
- Author: Lutz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805072934
- Language: English
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Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1994, a wildfire on Colorado’s Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemingly minor human error was merely the first in a strin… [more below]
- Author: MacLean, John N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0061829617
- Language: English
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
$19.99 Add to cartThe massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster… [more below]
- Author: Scotti, R. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 24 2004
- ISBN10: 0316832111
- Language: English
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Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas
$24.95 Add to cart2023 Martin Kansas History Book Award
In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures. But on the night of May 25, an- Author: Minick, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: May 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496231457
- Language: English
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A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind, and Water
$21.95 Add to cart“A meditative and elegiac look at a country on the brink.”
–PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestselling author David Gessner asks what kind of planet his daughter will inherit in this coast-to-coast guide to naviga
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814811
- Language: English
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions
$18.99 Add to cartOne of Vox’s Most Important Books of the Decade
New York Times Editors’ Choice 2017
Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017
As new groundbreaking research suggests that cli
- Author: Brannen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0062364812
- Language: English
