Fire Mountain: How One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster by Peter Morgan - 2004-09-05

Bloomsbury, 2004. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Bloomsbury, 2004. Paperback. New. 256 pages. 7.56x5.04x0.71 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. On 8th May 1902, Mont Pelee, the island volcano that had remained dormant for so long, had suddenly come alive. Within minutes the city had been destroyed along with its 30,000 inhabitants. This work presents the story of the destruction of a town in Martinique by an erupting volcano, a man who survived it, and a history of the island itself.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2004 First printing of the trade paperback edition. 244 pp. Illustrations. Fine.

London England: Bloomsbury, 2004. Paperback ¦Fire Mountain: How 30,000 Perished and One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster., the citizens of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, huddled together in their spectacular cathedral of Notre Dame. Mont Pelee, the island volcano that had remained dormant for so long, had suddenly come alive. Within minutes the city had been destroyed along with its 30,000 inhabitants. The only apparent survivor was Ludger Sylbaris, a twenty-seven-year-old labourer who had spent the previous night in Saint-Pierre jail. Sylbaris was taken on by P.T. Barnum's famous circus and became a celeb;; (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

London England: Bloomsbury, 2004. Paperback ¦Fire Mountain: How 30,000 Perished and One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster., the citizens of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, huddled together in their spectacular cathedral of Notre Dame. Mont Pelee, the island volcano that had remained dormant for so long, had suddenly come alive. Within minutes the city had been destroyed along with its 30,000 inhabitants. The only apparent survivor was Ludger Sylbaris, a twenty-seven-year-old labourer who had spent the previous night in Saint-Pierre jail. Sylbaris was taken on by P.T. Barnum's famous circus and became a celeb;; (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

Paperback. Very Good.