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The illustrated history of natural disasters
- Title
- The illustrated history of natural disasters / Jan Kozák, Vladimír Čermák.
- Author
- Kozák, Jan, 1938-
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; London ; New York : Springer, c2010.
- Supplementary Content
- Table of contents
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- Additional Authors
- Čermák, Vladimír.
- Description
- xviii, 203 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.); 29 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.
- Contents
- Natural disasters in historical pictures -- Pictorial reproduction techniques -- From ancient myths, through medieval perceptions, to present understanding -- Volcanoes -- Earthquakes -- Tsunamis -- Plate tectonic theory -- Vesuvius-Somma volcano, Bay of Naples, Italy -- Etna volcano, Sicily -- Stromboli volcano, Lipari, Tyrrhenian Sea -- Phleghraean Fields -- Santorin /Thira volcano, Greece -- Ferdinandea, a new submarine volcano -- Volcanism in Iceland -- Pico de Teide, Tenerife Island, Canary Archipelago -- Mount Pelée volcano, Martinique -- Orizaba volcano, Mexico -- Jorullo volcano, Mexico -- Pacaya volcano, Guatemala -- Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador -- Chimborazo Mountain, Ecuador -- Antuco volcano, Chile -- Kusatsu-Shirane Mt., Japan 1660s eruption -- Volcanoes of Indonesia -- Gamkonoro Mt., Moluccas Islands -- Avacha volcano, Kamchatka, Far East Russia -- Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Archipelago -- Kiyev earthquake, 1230 -- Aix-en-Provence, France, earthquake, 1708 -- Basel earthquake, 1356 -- Rhodes earthquake, 1481 -- Istanbul earthquake, 1566 -- Two earthquakes at Yedo (Tokyo), around 1650 (?) and in 1855 -- Earthquake at Port Royal (Jamaica), 1692 -- Great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 -- Calabrian earthquakes of 1783 and later on -- Valona (Albania) earthquake, 1851-- Zagreb (Adram) earthquake, Croatia, 1880 -- Two earthquakes in Italy : Ischia 1881 and Casamicciola 1883 -- Imperia earthquake, French/Italian Riviera, 1887 -- Earthquake at Shemakha, Azerbaijan, 1902 -- Submarine explosion near Juan Fernadez Island, Chile, 1835 (or 1837) -- Guadeloupe earthquake, Antilles, 1843 -- San José earthquake, Costa Rica, 1888 -- The 1861 earthquake at Mendoza, Argentina -- Arequipa/Arica earthquake (Peru-Chile border zone), 1868 -- San Salvador earthquake, Salvador, 1873 -- Charleston earthquake, South Carolina, USA, 1886 -- Hayward earthquake, 1868 -- The 1906 great San Francisco earthquake -- Two Calabrian earthquakes, 1905 and 1908 -- Milestones of seismology.
- Call Number
- JFF 14-1375
- ISBN
- 9789048133246 (hbk.)
- 9048133246 (hbk.)
- 9789048133253
- 9048133254
- OCLC
- 428029995
- Author
- Kozák, Jan, 1938-
- Title
- The illustrated history of natural disasters / Jan Kozák, Vladimír Čermák.
- Imprint
- Dordrecht ; London ; New York : Springer, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Čermák, Vladimír.
- Publisher No.
- 12238583
- Research Call Number
- JFF 14-1375