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Author : J. Herbert Welch
Publisher : New York : R. F. Fenno
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique written by J. Herbert Welch and published by New York : R. F. Fenno. This book was released on 1902 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J Herbert Welch
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230438153
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique written by J Herbert Welch and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... The Destruction of St. Pierre. chapter I. The Lesser Antilles are inconspicuous on the map of the West Indies. Stretching between Porto Rico and the northeastern coast of South America in a line that curves like the crescent of the new moon, they are so overshadowed by Cuba, Hayti, and Porto Rico as to attract little or no attention in a hasty scrutiny of a chart of the Islands of the Caribbean. They have played no great part in the world's history, but what little prominence they have had has been the prominence of misfortune. They have been the scenes of bloody conflicts between Spanish, English, and French colonists. They have been pillaged by pirates, devastated by floods and hurricanes, shaken by earthquakes. Despite the fact that they lie bathed in almost continual sunshine, seeming to be very paradises, with their noble hills clad in vivid greens, with their quaint little villages climbing up the slopes, and the soft breath of the tropics fanning them, they are no favorites of Dame Fortune. The term, Unhappy Isles, is one of the appellations by which they are best known to the world at large. But all the catastrophes that the years have heaped upon the Lesser Antilles have been paled into insignificance by the stupendous disaster that visited the Island of Martinique on the beautiful May morning of 1902. Nature gave but little warning of her gigantic outburst. Mont Pelee, rising to a height of nearly five thousand feet on the northwestern coast of Martinique, looked as peaceful and serene a few days before it belched forth its blast of death as it had looked for years. To passengers on steamers that skirted the long line of coast it was merely one of many lofty peaks, just a single feature of an impressive panorama of mountain...
Author : Gordon Thomas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497658802
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Day the World Ended written by Gordon Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned. In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later. So how did a town of thousands not heed the warnings of nature and local scientists, instead staying behind to perish in the onslaught of volcanic ash? Why did the newspapers publish articles assuring readers that the volcano was harmless? And why did the authorities refuse to allow the American Consul to contact Washington about the conditions? The answer lies in politics: With an election on the horizon, the political leaders of Martinique ignored the welfare of their people in order to consolidate the votes they needed to win. A gripping and informative book on the disastrous effects of a natural disaster coupled with corruption, The Day the World Ended reveals the story of a city engulfed in flames and the political leaders that chose to kill their people rather than give up their political power.
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Volcano's Deadly Work written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Zebrowski
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813530413
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of St. Pierre written by Ernest Zebrowski and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902, contrasting life on the island of Martinique before and after the disaster.
Author : Alwyn Scarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190293578
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book La Catastrophe written by Alwyn Scarth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount Pelée loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a gripping day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of this devastating eruption, based primarily on chilling eyewitness accounts. Scarth recounts how, for many days before the great eruption, a series of smaller eruptions spewed dust and ash. Then came the eruption. A blinding flash lit up the sky. A tremendous cannonade roared out that was heard in Venezuela. Then a scorching blast of superheated gas and ash shot straight down towards Saint-Pierre, racing down at hundreds of miles an hour. This infernal avalanche of dark, billowing, reddish-violet fumes, flashing lightning, ash and rocks, crashed and rolled headlong, destroying everything in its path--public buildings, private homes, the town hall, the Grand Hotel. Temperatures inside the cloud reached 450 degrees Celsius. Virtually everyone in Saint-Pierre died within minutes. Scarth tells of many lucky escapes--the ship Topaze left just hours before the eruption, a prisoner escaped death in solitary confinement. But these were the fortunate few. An official delegation sent later that day by the mayor of Fort-de-France reported total devastation--no quays, no trees, only shattered facades. Saint-Pierre was a smoldering ruin. In the tradition of A Perfect Storm and Isaac's Storm, but on a much larger scale, La Catastrophe takes readers inside the greatest volcanic eruption of the century and one of the most tragic natural disasters of all time.
Author : Charles 1833-1922 Morris
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019773864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Destruction of St. Pierre and St. Vincent and the World's Greatest Disasters From Pompeii to Martinique... a Vivid and Accurate Story of the Awful Calamity Which Visited the Islands of Martinique and St. Vincent, May 8, 1902 written by Charles 1833-1922 Morris and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of one of the worst volcanic disasters in history. On May 8, 1902, the Caribbean island of Martinique was destroyed by a massive eruption that killed over 30,000 people. Morris's descriptive and compelling narrative brings this tragedy to life, and reminds us of the power of nature and the fragility of human life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021817136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Destruction of St. Pierre and St. Vincent and the World's Greatest Disasters From Pompeii to Martinique... a Vivid and Accurate Story of the Awful written by Charles Morris and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of one of the worst volcanic disasters in history. On May 8, 1902, the Caribbean island of Martinique was destroyed by a massive eruption that killed over 30,000 people. Morris's descriptive and compelling narrative brings this tragedy to life, and reminds us of the power of nature and the fragility of human life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Christopher M. Church
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496204492
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Paradise Destroyed written by Christopher M. Church and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements--earth, wind, fire, and water--as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue. These disasters thrust a long history of societal and economic inequities into the public sphere as officials and citizens weighed the importance of social welfare, exploitative economic practices, citizenship rights, racism, and governmental responsibility. Paradise Destroyed explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. French nationalists projected a fantasy of assimilation onto the Caribbean, where the predominately nonwhite population received full French citizenship and governmental representation. When disaster struck in the faraway French West Indies--whether the whirlwinds of a hurricane or a vast workers' strike--France faced a tempest at home as politicians, journalists, and economists, along with the general population, debated the role of the French state not only in the Antilles but in their own lives as well. Environmental disasters brought to the fore existing racial and social tensions and held to the fire France's ideological convictions of assimilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church shows how France's "old colonies" laid claim to a definition of tropical French-ness amid the sociopolitical and cultural struggles of a fin de siècle France riddled with social unrest and political divisions.
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781019528754
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Volcano's Deadly Work written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the gripping story of the devastating volcanic eruptions that decimated the islands of Martinique and St. Vincent in May 1902. Drawing on the accounts of eyewitnesses and the journalist who covered the events for the New York Times, this book provides a riveting and accurate account of this tragedy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018011899
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Volcano's Deadly Work: From the Fall of Pompeii to the Destruction of St. Pierre ... a Vivid and Accurate Story of the Awful Calamity Which V written by Charles Morris and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : William A. Garesché
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Complete Story of the Martinique and St. Vincent Horrors ... written by William A. Garesché and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample book for the upcoming publication of the same title. "This prospectus has been prepared very hastily, and any imperfections to be found in it will be detected and removed from the pages before the complete book is printed" (from sheet attached at front). Final page is an advertisment for the upcoming publication, with lined blank sheets for the names of purchasers ("We, the undersigned, agree to take the number of copies set opposite our name... if equal to sample shown").
Author : Angelo Heilprin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mont Pelée and the Tragedy of Martinique written by Angelo Heilprin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Royce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Burning of St. Pierre and the Eruption of Mont Pelee written by Frederick Royce and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Kennan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of Pelée written by George Kennan and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Volcano's Deadly Work from the Fall of Pompeii to the Destruction of St. Pierre ... written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Garesché
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Complete Story of the Martinique and St. Vincent Horrors... written by William A. Garesché and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample book for the upcoming publication of the same title. "This prospectus has been prepared very hastily, and any imperfections to be found in it will be detected and removed from the pages before the complete book is printed" (from sheet attached at front). Final page is an advertisment for the upcoming publication, with lined blank sheets for the names of purchasers ("We, the undersigned, agree to take the number of copies set opposite our name... if equal to sample shown").
