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The Day the World Ended: Mont Pelee Earthquake, 1902

✍ Scribed by Thomas, Gordon; Witts, Max Morgan

Book ID
109292641
Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2011
Tongue
en-US
Weight
3 MB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

The compelling true story of the most lethal natural disaster in the western hemisphere from Edgar Award–nominated authors Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
In late April 1902, Mount PelΓ©e, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later.

So how did a town of thousands not heed the warnings of nature and local scientists, instead staying behind to perish in the onslaught of volcanic ash? Why did the newspapers publish articles assuring readers that the volcano was harmless? And why did the authorities refuse to allow the...

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