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Great disasters : dramatic true stories of nature's awesome powers - New York Reader's Digest Association inc 1989 - 320 p.
Includes index
Foreword -- Disasters since the dawn of time -- Death of the dinosaurs -- The Mediterranean vanishes -- Indelible imprint of the Ice Age -- Noah's flood -- The making of the Sahara -- Thera: great destroyer -- The plague of Athens -- The burning of Rome -- The wrath of Vesuvius -- Earthquake at Alexandria -- Killer quake at Antioch -- Great pestilence in Constantinople -- Famine in Egypt -- Drought in the American Southwest -- Tragedy on a global scale -- The Black Death -- Mysterious sweating sickness -- Smallpox in Mexico -- London's great plague -- The great fire of London -- Mount Etna erupts -- again -- Windstorm in Britain -- The Lisbon earthquake -- Eruption in the land of ice and fire -- Yellow fever in Saint-Domingue -- Forgotten quake at New Madrid -- The year without a summer -- Cholera sweeps the world -- Famine in Ireland -- Fires in Wisconsin -- The great Chicago fire -- The year of the locusts -- Famine in China -- Krakatoa erupts -- The blizzard of '88 -- The Johnstown flood -- Tsunami terror ini Japan -- The plague comes to the Americas -- Age-old perils in a modern world -- Galveston's killer hurricane -- Sleeping sickness invades Uganda -- Mount Pelee: grim reaper -- The Frank slide -- The San Francisco earthquake -- Mysterious fireball blasts Siberia -- Earthquake at Messina -- The big blowup in the Northwest -- Death of the Titanic -- Influenza strikes worldwide -- The great Kanto earthquake -- Old Man River on the loose -- Drought and despair in mid-America -- The New England hurricane -- Giant earthquake shatters Chile -- Bomber blitzes Empire State Building -- Killer from the deep -- Risk and survival on our violent planet -- Winter of terror -- London's deadly fog -- The night the North Sea overflowed -- New Zealand's Christmas Eve horror -- Tragedy on the Andrea Doria -- Vera: Japan's super typhoon -- The Good Friday earthquake -- Flood in Florence -- Monster wave in East Pakistan -- A demon named Agnes -- Death in Managua. Terror by twister -- Australia's Christmas cyclone -- The great Tangshan earthquake -- The fury of Mount St. Helens -- Killer heat wave -- Agony in the Mezzogiorno -- The plane that fell from the sky -- Inferno in Australia -- Famine in Africa -- Earthquake in Mexico City -- The wrath of Nevado del Ruiz -- Monster in Lake Nyos -- Horror in Armenia -- The future of the earth -- Catalogue of catastrophes.
Covers famous examples of earthquakes, avalanches, blizzards, floods, epidemics, windstorms, tidal waves, freak accidents, fires, locust plagues, landslides, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, droughts, famines, fogs, volcanoes, etc.
089577321x
Natural disasters
904.5 Gre 15
Great disasters : dramatic true stories of nature's awesome powers - New York Reader's Digest Association inc 1989 - 320 p.
Includes index
Foreword -- Disasters since the dawn of time -- Death of the dinosaurs -- The Mediterranean vanishes -- Indelible imprint of the Ice Age -- Noah's flood -- The making of the Sahara -- Thera: great destroyer -- The plague of Athens -- The burning of Rome -- The wrath of Vesuvius -- Earthquake at Alexandria -- Killer quake at Antioch -- Great pestilence in Constantinople -- Famine in Egypt -- Drought in the American Southwest -- Tragedy on a global scale -- The Black Death -- Mysterious sweating sickness -- Smallpox in Mexico -- London's great plague -- The great fire of London -- Mount Etna erupts -- again -- Windstorm in Britain -- The Lisbon earthquake -- Eruption in the land of ice and fire -- Yellow fever in Saint-Domingue -- Forgotten quake at New Madrid -- The year without a summer -- Cholera sweeps the world -- Famine in Ireland -- Fires in Wisconsin -- The great Chicago fire -- The year of the locusts -- Famine in China -- Krakatoa erupts -- The blizzard of '88 -- The Johnstown flood -- Tsunami terror ini Japan -- The plague comes to the Americas -- Age-old perils in a modern world -- Galveston's killer hurricane -- Sleeping sickness invades Uganda -- Mount Pelee: grim reaper -- The Frank slide -- The San Francisco earthquake -- Mysterious fireball blasts Siberia -- Earthquake at Messina -- The big blowup in the Northwest -- Death of the Titanic -- Influenza strikes worldwide -- The great Kanto earthquake -- Old Man River on the loose -- Drought and despair in mid-America -- The New England hurricane -- Giant earthquake shatters Chile -- Bomber blitzes Empire State Building -- Killer from the deep -- Risk and survival on our violent planet -- Winter of terror -- London's deadly fog -- The night the North Sea overflowed -- New Zealand's Christmas Eve horror -- Tragedy on the Andrea Doria -- Vera: Japan's super typhoon -- The Good Friday earthquake -- Flood in Florence -- Monster wave in East Pakistan -- A demon named Agnes -- Death in Managua. Terror by twister -- Australia's Christmas cyclone -- The great Tangshan earthquake -- The fury of Mount St. Helens -- Killer heat wave -- Agony in the Mezzogiorno -- The plane that fell from the sky -- Inferno in Australia -- Famine in Africa -- Earthquake in Mexico City -- The wrath of Nevado del Ruiz -- Monster in Lake Nyos -- Horror in Armenia -- The future of the earth -- Catalogue of catastrophes.
Covers famous examples of earthquakes, avalanches, blizzards, floods, epidemics, windstorms, tidal waves, freak accidents, fires, locust plagues, landslides, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, droughts, famines, fogs, volcanoes, etc.
089577321x
Natural disasters
904.5 Gre 15