Great disasters : dramatic true stories of nature's awesome powers.

9780895773210
089577321X

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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 in 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

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