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Volcanoes have fascinated--and terrified--people for ages. They have destroyed cities and ended civilizations. In this book, John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms, looks into the early years of volcanology and its father, Thomas Jaggar. Jaggar was the youngest of five scientists to investigate the explosion of Mount Pelee in Martinique, which leveled the entire city of St. Pierre and killed its entire population in two minutes. This explosion changed science forever, and Jaggar became obsessed with understanding the force of nature that could do this. Falling in love with a widowed schoolteacher who shared his passion, Jaggar devoted his life to studying volcanic activity and the mysteries beneath the earth's surface. From their precarious perch, this dynamic husband and wife duo would discover a way to predict volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, promote geothermal energy, and theorize new ways to study the ocean bottom.

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"Reads like a good sci-fi, with colorful characters making startling discoveries.-- ""The Honolulu Star"""

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John Dvorak has studied volcanoes and earthquakes around the world for the United States Geological Survey. He is the author of Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault. He has also written cover stories for Scientific American, Astronomy, and Physics Today. John lives in Hawaii, where he operates the telescope at Mauna Kea. Tom Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's pioneers. His venture capital firm has financed many famous companies, including Genentech, Compaq, Amazon, AOL, and Google. Perkins lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a medieval manor house, complete with moat, in East Sussex, England.

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