[PDF.75wv] Terra: Tales of the Earth: Four Events That Changed the World

Terra: Tales of the Earth: Four Events That Changed the World

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 | #5472603 in Books |  2010-06-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.80 x.79 x5.16l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 268 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| FOUR TALES AND THEIR MORAL|By DAVID BRYSON|Why would anyone publish a book about four major natural disasters? The author in his preface points to the obvious parallel between his final section, on the April Fool's Day tsunami in Hawaii in 1946, and the Pacific tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 that overtook the writing of that section. In his Afterword he develops his thoughts on tsu|About the Author|Richard Hamblyn was born in 1965 and is a graduate of the universities of Essex and of Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the early history of geology in Britain. His first book, The Invention of Clouds, won the Los Angeles Tim

Blending history, science and eye-witness accounts, and arranged in chapters corresponding to the four elements (earth, air, fire and water), "Terra" explores the relationship between the planet and the humans who inhabit its surfaces. Through four case histories - the Lisbon earthquake of 1755; the weather-panics of the summer of 1783; the eruption of Krakatau in 1883; and, the Hilo tsunami of 1946 - Hamblyn reminds us of the earth's unimaginable force and describes wha...

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