the subject of Mt, St. Helens eruption is a little personal for me than most people, One of the points the author fails to mention was there were three Weyerhaeuser foresters working that day mopping up a small forest fire northwest of the mountain too, I was one If you're looking for a book that'll take you on an epic journey through the explosive world of volcanoes, then "Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St.
Helens" is the perfect pick! This page turner takes you on a thrilling trip back in time to the moment Mount St, Helens I've watched about every Mt St Helens documentary out there but to read this book was infinitely better!! Nice work!! I was there near Mt St Helens eruption, Since then I was looking for a full covering description, This book is the one, It is clear that the author wished to write the story of the history of the logging and lumber business in the USA, He probably felt that this would not draw enough readers so he added a small amount about the Mt, St. Helens eruption. He writes well, just be aware of the actual topic of the book before you, like me, in bafflement read scores of pages on logging and on the original lumber barons.
Including a lengthy, completely irrelevant story of how one of lumber baron's great grandson was kidnapped, What there is about Mt, St. Helens is good but it makes up a distinct minority of the actual pages, Clear and easy to read description of the Mount St Helens eruption, This getsbecause I did learn about the politics and the victims of the Mt, St. Helen's explosion. To get there, I had to slog through a biography of Goerge Weyerhaeuser so long I wondered if this was just another way to advertise Weyerhaeuser, It was Eruption by Steve Olson brought back many vivid memories, Inmy family and I lived in Yakima, aboutmiles northeast of Mt, St. Helens. That Sunday morning ourth wedding anniversary the blackest cloud I have ever seen descended on our area turning I visited Mount Saint Helen's a few years ago, It was very impressive to see the barren desolation from the ridge viewing location, Even after many years, the surrounding area looked like a moonscape, virtually no plants until you were miles from the crater, It is a This is a very good book, The research is exhaustive, and
the author appears to have gone to considerable lengths to talk to survivors, witnesses, scientists, policy makers and others who lived through the event and helped to shape the response.
It's beenyears since the You would think a book about the volcanic explosion might be a little dry, but the author really digs deep into the history of the area, and makes sure to tell the stories of the people involved in the historic natural event.
Eruption was not quite what I'd expected when I ordered the book, as I am far interested in the geophysical aspects of eruptions and earthquakes than in anything else, but the narratives of those people who had experienced this cataclysm were spell binding, even though as to be expected horrific in places.
This book very well underlines the vulnerability of our infrastructure, and, of course, of people themselves in the face of a volcanic event, It remains to be hoped that politicians who often express disbelief about the grossly insufficient! funds expended for research on volcanoes and earthquakes read this book and realize that this is funding that has to be increased, not cut even further.
I was living in Seattle when the big eruption happened, heard the sonic boom from it, and also actually witnessed one of the subsequent eruptions, I had family living in eastern Washington that I could not get ahold of for days and who had witnessed the total darkness and A riveting history of the Mount St.
Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" Simon Winchester, For months in early, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St, Helens in southwestern Washington State, Still, no one was prepared when a cataclysmic eruption blew the top off of the mountain, laying waste to hundreds of square miles of land and killing fifty seven people.
Steve Olson interweaves vivid personal stories with the history, science, and economic forces that influenced the fates and futures of those around the volcano, Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative of an event that changed the course of volcanic science, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world,pages of illustrationsmaps.