Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester). For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby resid…

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