Steve Olson Discusses His Book 'Eruption : the Untold Story of Mount St. Helens'Steve Olson Discusses His Book 'Eruption : the Untold Story of Mount St. Helens'
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Current format, Website or Online Data, 2016, , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAward-winning science writer Steve Olson presents an illustrated talk about 'Eruption.' He explains why the Mount ST. Helens blast happened and recounts the untold stories of the 57 people who were killed. Some people thought that these individuals had foolishly entered the danger zone, but that turns out not to be true. Only three people were in the designated danger zone, and two of them had permission to be there. A major contributor to the death toll on May 18, 1980, was that the danger zone was much too close to the mountain. The Weyerhaeuser Company, logging in the Northwest, construction of the transcontinental railroads, establishment of the national forests, and the conservation movement in Washington State -- all played in to what happened that day. -- "This first-class, meticulously crafted piece of reportage was as exciting as it was informative and will long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative of the biggest American volcanic eruption of all our lifetimes or so we all hope!" --Simon Winchester, author of 'Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded.' -- Steve Olson is a Seattle-based award-winning science writer, a consultant for the National Academy of Sciences, and the author of 'Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins,' a National Book Award finalist. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Science, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Wired, and Slate, among other magazines.
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