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Author : Chuck Williams,Stuart Warren
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1558683100
View the grandeur and the intimate detail of this beloved mountain as seen by 19th-century painters and pioneers as well as contemporary photographers.
Author : Steve Olson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393242805
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.
Author : Catherine Jean Hickson
Publisher : Gordon Soules Book Publishers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121905173
Experience the exhilaration and terror of the Mt. St. Helens eruption through this amazing eyewitness account. Renowned volcanologist Dr. Catherine Hickson vividly portrays one of the most spectacular geological events of the 20th century. As a young geology student at the time of the eruption on May 18, 1980, she watched from only 9 miles away as the dramatic explosion created a "stone wind" of molten rock and ash. Traveling at more than 300 miles an hour, in 3 short minutes it redefined the lives of many people and flattened 230 square miles of forest in Washington State. The devastation stopped 2 miles short of the author's location and claimed 57 lives. Some of the victims were found as far as 13 miles from the crater. Based on a letter written to a close friend immediately after the eruption, the author's personal narrative also chronicles the volcano's formation, destruction, and rebirth, and is augmented by many diagrams and photographs that have never before been published.
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UIUC:30112057495449
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UCAL:$C134770
Author : Cynthia D. Stowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035080105
An attractive and perceptive photographic and historical view of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon. 11x11" Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545658539
The mountain exploded with the power of ten million tons of dynamite... Eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe has grown up with the beautiful Mount St. Helens always in the background. She's hiked its winding trails, dived into its cold lakes, and fished for trout in its streams. Just looking at Mount St. Helens out her window made Jess feel calm, like it was watching over her somehow. Of course, she knew the mountain was a volcano...but not the active kind, not a volcano that could destroy and kill!Then Mount St. Helens explodes with unimaginable fury. Jess suddenly finds herself in the middle of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic event in U.S. history. Ash and rock are spewing everywhere. Can Jess escape in time?The newest book in the I Survived series will take readers into one of the most environmentally devastating events in recent U.S. history.
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : UOM:39015027317596
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : MINN:31951D02889111P
Author : Frank Gohlke,Kerry E. Sieh,Simon LeVay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Landscape photography
ISBN : 0870703463
On the morning of May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in the forests of Washington State exploded. First, months of building interior pressure triggered a massive landslide, removing the entire north face of the mountain. This avalanche was followed immediately by a violent eruption that ultimately expelled over a quarter-billion cubic yards of magma. The blast devastated roughly 250 square miles, leaving behind scoured rock, millions of fallen trees, and mud-choked river valleys. Yet the land returned, gradually restoring and regenerating itself. Beginning in 1981 and continuing until 1990, photographer Frank Gohlke made regular visits to the devastated land around Mount St. Helens. This collection of photographs of biblical grandeur records both the ravaged terrain around the volcano in the early years after the eruption, and the regrowth--slow but extraordinary--of the region's natural forest. Mount St. Helens: 1981 to 1990 contains a dramatic selection of these photographs; an introductory essay on the volcanology and geology of the Pacific Northwest by Kerry Sieh and Simon LeVay; and notes on the images by the photographer himself.
Author : Linda Elisabeth LaPinta
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780813198194
Although they are commonplace in American homes, quilts are much more than simple patchwork bed coverings and wall adornments. While many of these beautiful and intricate works of art are rich in history and tradition, others reflect the cutting-edge talent and avant-garde mastery of contemporary quiltmakers. Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce is the first comprehensive study to approach quilts as objects of material culture that have adorned homes throughout the history of the commonwealth and the country. Linda Elisabeth LaPinta highlights such topics as quiltmaking in women's history, the influence of early Black quiltmakers, popular Kentucky quilt patterns, types, and colors, and the continuing importance of preserving the commonwealth's quilt history and traditions. The author provides a panoramic view of Kentucky quiltmaking from colonial America through the American Revolution, the Civil War to the 1900s, to the new millennium and the dynamic quilting industry of today. LaPinta reveals Kentucky's pivotal role in shaping significant aspects of American quilt culture—Kentuckians founded the first statewide quilt documentation project, created important exhibits and major quilt organizations, and established the National Quilt Museum. Rounding out this all-encompassing volume is a collection of fascinating and intimate artistic commentaries by notable quiltmakers, as well as discussion of the key players who have conserved, celebrated, and showcased the commonwealth's extraordinary quilt culture.
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UIUC:30112060019699
Author : Rosaly M. C. Lopes,Michael W. Carroll
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801886737
At once terrifyingly destructive and awe-inspiringly beautiful, volcanoes have long fascinated humankind. From Vesuvius and Etna to Krakatau and Mount Saint Helen’s, these molten rock- and ash-spewing geysers have destroyed whole cities and countless lives, and altered the course of history. Yet our understanding of volcanoes on Earth—and throughout the celestial world—remains maddeningly incomplete. With Alien Volcanoes, Rosaly M. C. Lopes and Michael W. Carroll offer a dynamic tour of volcanic activity across the solar system. Through eight gracefully written chapters laced with gripping photographs and stunning artwork, Lopes and Carroll survey the complete spectrum of volcanism in time and location, from the solar system’s origin to the modern era and from the familiar shield volcanoes of the terrestrial worlds to the bizarre superchilled geysers on distant ice moons. In the process, they entertain the possibility of hidden lakes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, discuss the potential effects of greenhouse gases on Neptune’s moon Triton, reconstruct the last moments of life for Pompeiians in the face of an erupting Mount Vesuvius, and explain how a 4,000-mile-long river of lava could have once flowed freely across the plains of Venus. Richly illustrated with original paintings supplemented by NASA and European Space Agency photographs, Alien Volcanoes advances our knowledge of volcanoes on other heavenly bodies, enhances our ability to comprehend how they came into being on Earth, and describes how we might better predict the impact of future eruptions.
Author : Eric Wagner
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295746944
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. Ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades, for life to return to the mountain, but when forest scientist Jerry Franklin helicoptered into the blast area a couple of weeks after the eruption, he found small plants bursting through the ash and animals skittering over the ground. Stunned, he realized he and his colleagues had been thinking of the volcano in completely the wrong way. Rather than being a dead zone, the mountain was very much alive. Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists ever since, and in After the Blast Eric Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals Franklin saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.
Author : Rachel Kranz
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616726430
