A description of 15 volcanic eruptions through the centuries, with first-hand accounts of the different ways people reacted to them. It reconstructs the physical experience of eruptions and examines the advances in technology and volcanic surveillance in the 20th century.
- ISBN10 0300075413
- ISBN13 9780300075410
- Publish Date 10 September 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 February 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 308
- Language English