Earthquakes & Volcanoes
-
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
-
When Worlds Quake: The Quest to Understand the Interior of Earth and Beyond
$29.95 Add to cartHow earthquakes can reveal the subsurface secrets of our planet and other worlds
When Worlds Quake is a fascinating account of how scientists around the globe seek to use quakes to answer tantalizing- Author: Tkalčic, Hrvoje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 069127147X
- Language: English
-
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us about the World and Ourselves
$32.99 Add to cart*A Library Journal Best Book of 2024*
A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the … [more below]
- Author: Mather, Tamsin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1335080856
- Language: English
-
The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
$21.00 Add to cartLike Winchester’s Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel c- Author: Klingaman, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042755
- Language: English
-
The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake
$21.99 Add to cart- Series: Disaster
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1467119962
- Language: English
-
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
$21.95 Add to cartA global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruption
When Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witne- Author: Wood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168628
- Language: English
-
Volcanoes
$8.99 Add to cartRumbling, hissing, shaking. . .a volcano is about to erupt! Learn all about volcanoes, from tectonic plates to what do when there is a volcanic warning, in this primer for young readers.
Did you know- Author: Gibbons, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0823453294
- Language: English
-
Eruptions That Shook the World
$39.99 Add to cartWhat does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption… [more below]
- Author: Oppenheimer, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: June 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0521641128
- Language: English
-
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
$17.99 Add to cartFor 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 catacl
- Author: Olson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353583
- Language: English
-
Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain
$14.95 Add to cartAt 8:32am, Sunday, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington State with the explosive force of more than 20 million tons of TNT. It remains the most deadly and economically destructive volc… [more below]
- Author: Rosen, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0914019724
- Language: English
-
Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes
$7.99 Add to cartHawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (1916) explores Hawaiian folktales and myths collected by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultures, Westerve
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Westervelt, W. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1513299573
- Language: English
-
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
$21.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the ear
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 60838590
- Language: English
-
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, reveal… [more below]
- Author: Feldman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0743242793
- Language: English
-
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
$21.99 Add to cartThe international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America’s relentless western
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0060572000
- Language: English
-
Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
$27.50 Read moreMeeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind.
In Mountains of Fire, Clive Oppenheimer invites readers to stand with him in the shadow of an active- Author: Oppenheimer, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826341
- Language: English
-
In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens
$24.95 Add to cartA napping volcano blinked awake in March 1980. Two months later, when that mountain roared, Jim Scymanky was about twelve miles northwest, logging a north slope above Hoffstadt Creek. “Rocks zinged th
- Author: Waitt, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 15 2015
- ISBN10: 874223237
- Language: English
