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Mountain of Fire is the narrative nonfiction account of the violent volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, the story of the people who died, those who survived, and the heroes who fought to raise an alarm.
For weeks, the ground around Mount St. Helens shuddered like a dynamite keg ready to explode. There were legends of previous eruptions: violent fire, treacherous floods, and heat that had scoured the area. But the shaking and swelling was unlike any volcanic activity ever seen before. Day and night, scientists tried to piece together the mountain’s clues―yet nothing could prepare them for the destruction to come.
The long-dormant volcano seethed away, boiling rock far below the surface. Washington’s governor, Dixie Lee Ray, understood the despair that would follow from people being forced from their homes. How and when should she give orders to evacuate the area? And would that be enough to save the people from the eruption of Mount St. Helens?
Includes a QR code for a website featuring eye-catching photos of the eruption.
Rebecca E. F. Barone is an engineer and author. She has worked on technical projects as diverse as injury analysis for the NFL and engine calibration for hybrid cars. Realizing her love of books in addition to numbers, she now describes the world with words rather than equations. Her first three books, Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica, Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code, and Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helens together received twelve starred reviews and were featured on numerous “best of year” lists. She lives in Ohio with her family. Rebecca E. F. Barone es ingeniera y autora. Ha trabajado en proyectos técnicos tan diversos como el análisis de lesiones para la NFL y la calibración de motores para coches híbridos. Al darse cuenta de su amor por los libros además de los números, ahora describe el mundo con palabras en lugar de ecuaciones. Sus tres primeros libros, Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica, Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code y Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helens recibieron en conjunto doce reseñas destacadas y figuraron en numerosas listas de "lo mejor del año". Vive en Ohio con su familia.
