Stanley Williams (4)
Autore di Surviving Galeras
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Opere di Stanley Williams
Opere correlate
Adrenaline 2001: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival (2001) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
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- male
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 74
- Popolarità
- #238,154
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 21
- Lingue
- 2
The conference organizer and leader of the field trip, Stanley Williams, was nearly killed, with a badly broken ankle and a brain injury. All the injured were burned from the barrage of hot rocks.
Apart from being an absorbing tale of what it's like on top of an active, steaming volcano, the books have a touch of controversy on whether there was credible warning of the eruption (in which case the field trip could have been cancelled), and on the need for hard hats and fire-protective clothes, both of which were not worn by most of those on the crater.
Both books are excellent, and I'd recommend reading both if you can, because of the controversy. They cover slightly different fields: Bruce tells the tale of Nevado del Ruiz's 1985 eruption in some detail, a devastating event in which 23,000 people died in a mudflow simply due to civic incompetence. Williams spends more time than Bruce discussing other historical eruptions around the world. A better although still complementary book on the consequences of eruptions in general is Volcano Cowboys by Dick Thompson, which describes the role of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and covers the eruptions of Mt St Helens (1980) and Pinatubo (1991) in great detail.… (altro)