Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson

Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens Reviews

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  Chuck

  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
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  Yossi

  I was there near Mt St Helen’s eruption. Since then I was looking for a full covering description. This book is the one.
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  Charlie LURP

  OK, the subject of Mt. St. Helen’s 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
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  smoke11

  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 been 35 years since the
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  Marla Burke

  This gets 3 stars because 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
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  lithophyte

  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
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  E. Joseph Anna

  Eruption by Steve Olson brought back many vivid memories. In 1980 my family and I lived in Yakima, about 80 miles northeast of Mt. St. Helens. That Sunday morning (our 12th wedding anniversary) the blackest cloud I have ever seen descended on our area turning
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  MJ

  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
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  Deb C

  Clear and easy to read description of the Mount St Helens eruption.
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  Charlotte Davis

  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.
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  Martha McCulloch

  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.
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  Americanewfie

  I've watched about every Mt St Helens documentary out there but to read this book was infinitely better!! Nice work!!
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  Bruce V.

  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.