A Deluge of Consequences
Series: EBL-Schweitzer
Publisher: Cork : BookBaby
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781483511450
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Lake Thorthormi; Chapter Two: Preparations; Chapter Three: Up; Chapter Four: Himalayan Meltdown-or Not; Chapter Five: Misfortune; Chapter Six: Down; Chapter Seven: The Future of GLOFs; Coda; Further Reading.; title: Poised atop the high Himalayas is a frightening daisy chain of fragile glacial lakes, all produced by glacial melting as a result of climate change. When the lakes burst, the torrents of water sweep entire populations in their wake. In A Deluge of Consequences, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes us along on a mythic, spell-binding trip to the.