The Last Days of St. Pierre
Subtitle: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780813530413
Subjects: Social history; Vulcanology & seismology; PelÃ¢ee, Mount (Martinique); Mount PelÃ¢ee (Martinique); Caribbean Area - History; Volcanoes; Nature; Pelee, Mount (Martinique); Nature/Ecology; Martinique; Natural Disasters; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Earthquakes & Volcanoes; Saint-Pierre (Martinique); 20th century; Eruption, 1902; History; Mount Pelâee (Martinique); Pelâee, Mount (Martinique)
First sentence: It was the best of times to be a young seaman.