num_pages: 336
description: 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 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 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. 8 pages of illustrations; 8 maps
language: English
title: Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company