Cauldron of Hell: Tunguska
by Stoneley, Jack
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: shelf wear/bumped corners to boards, mild offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight./DJ G: age toning, spine sunned, corner and edge wear, chipping, NOT clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0671229435
- ISBN 13
- 9780671229436
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: shelf wear/bumped corners to boards, mild offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight./DJ G: age toning, spine sunned, corner and edge wear, chipping, NOT clipped. 8vo 216pp. from front flap: "Suddenly, like a burning sun falling from the sky, a cosmic monster "invades" our planet, "a monster that ripped into the atmosphere and exploded with the appalling fury of a thirty-megaton nuclear bomb that could be heard seven hundred and fifty miles away." the enormous shock wave that followed echoed twice around the world. This strange and unbelievably destructive event (it flattened nearly 800 square miles of forest "like a gale raging through a cornfield, contemptuously wrenching out mighty tree trunks by their roots") occurred shortly after midnight in Siberia, near the banks of the Stony Tunguska River, on the last day of June, 1908. It came, it destroyed, and it vanished--and it is still, nearly seventy years later, one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time." #02462.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2397
- Title
- Cauldron of Hell: Tunguska
- Author
- Stoneley, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: shelf wear/bumped corners to boards, mild offset to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ G: age toning, spine sunned, corner and edge wear, chipping, NOT clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671229435
- ISBN 13
- 9780671229436
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- science, nonfiction, journalism, Siberia
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