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The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury by John Dvorak (Hardback, 2015)

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Volcaes have fascinated-and terrified-people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early scientific study of volcaes and the life of the man who pioneered the field, Thomas Jaggar. Educated at Harvard, Jaggar went to the Caribbean after Mount Pelee exploded in 1902, killing more than 26,000 people. Witnessing the destruction and learning about the horrible deaths these people had suffered, Jaggar vowed to dedicate himself to a study of volcaes. What followed was fifty years of global travel to eruptions in Italy, Alaska, Central America, Japan and the Pacific. In 1912, he built a small science station at the edge of a lake of molten lava at Kilauea volca in the Hawaiian Islands, with the goal of solving the mystery of why volcaes erupt and how they could be predicted. Jaggar found something else at Kilauea: true love. She was Isabel Maydwell, a widowed school teacher who came to Kilauea to restart her life. For more than twenty ears, she and Jaggar ran the science station, living in a small house at the edge of a high cliff that overlooked the lava lake. Maydwell would quickly becoming one of the world's most astute observers of volcanic activity. Mixed with tales of myths and rituals, as well as the author's own experiences and insight into volcanic activity, The Last Volca reveals the lure and romance of confronting nature in its most magnificent form-the edge of a volcanic eruption.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
ISBN-10
1605989215
ISBN-13
9781605989211
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214318786

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Author
John Dvorak
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Autobiography: General
Genre
Autobiography: General

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Weight
500g
Height
239mm
Width
162mm

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Place of Publication
New York
Spine
30mm
Content Note
8 Page B&W Image Insert
Author Biography
Originally trained as a lunar scientist, John Dvorak, PhD, spent twenty years operating a large telescope at Mauna Kea for the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. His writing has appeared as cover stories for Scientific American, Astronomy and Physics Today. His books include Earthquake Storms and The Last Volcano, both available from Pegasus Books.
Date of Publication
22/12/2015
Country of Publication
United States

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