The big one : the earthquake that rocked early America and helped create a science / Jake Page and Charles Officer.
"In the early 1800s a series of gargantuan earth tremors seized the American frontier. Tremendous roars and flashes of eerie light accompanied huge spouts of water and gas. Six-foot-high waterfalls appeared in the Mississippi River, thousands of trees exploded, and some 1,500 people - in what w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
[2004]
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| Summary: | "In the early 1800s a series of gargantuan earth tremors seized the American frontier. Tremendous roars and flashes of eerie light accompanied huge spouts of water and gas. Six-foot-high waterfalls appeared in the Mississippi River, thousands of trees exploded, and some 1,500 people - in what was then a sparsely populated wilderness - were killed. A region the size of Texas, centered in Missouri and Arkansas, was rent apart, and the tremors reached as far as Montreal. Forget the 1906 earthquake - this set of quakes constituted the Big One." "Jake Page and Charles Officer rely on historical accounts and the latest scientific findings to tell a long-forgotten story in which the naturalist John James Audubon, the Shawnee chief Tecumsch, scientists, and charlatans all play roles."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0618341501 9780618341504 |