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The Last Volcano Hardcover - 2015 - 1st Edition

by John Dvorak


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Volcanoes have fascinated--and terrified--people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. John Dvorak, the critically acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms looks in to the early years of volcanology and its father, Thomas Jaggar. Jaggar was the youngest of five scientists to investigate the explosion of Mount Pelee in Martinique, which leveled the entire city of St. Pierre and killed its entire population in two minutes. This explosion changed science forever, and Jaggar became obsessed with understand the force of nature that could do this. A colorful casts of scientists wind their way through this story, but the focus is on Jaggar, who was so obsessed by volcanology, that he moved to a small house overlooking the lava lake of Kilauea. With a widowed schoolteacher who shared his passion, the two devoted their lives to studying volcanic activity. From this precarious perch, they would discover a way to predict volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, promote geothermal energy, and theorize new ways to study the ocean bottom.

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  • Title The Last Volcano
  • Author John Dvorak
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 356
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pegasus Books, New York
  • Date 2015-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781605989211 / 1605989215
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Volcanoes - Hawaii, Geologists - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016427582
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Dr. John Dvorak, PhD, worked on volcanoes and earthquakes for the U.S. Geological Survey, first at Mount St. Helens, then as a series of assignments in California, Hawaii, Italy, Indonesia, Central America and Alaska. He has written cover stories for Scientific American, Physics Today and Astronomy magazines, as well as a series of essays about earthquakes and volcanoes for American Scientist. Dvorak has taught at the University of Hawaii and lectured at UCLA, Washington University in St. Louis, the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, among others
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