The world's greatest disasters / Joyce Robins.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Jersey : Chartwell Books Inc., c1990.Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN:- 1555215661
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 904 WOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005717890 |
Includes index.
The moving land -- Man's inhumanity to man -- Catastrophes of nature -- Man-made disasters -- Tragedies or air, sea and rail -- Fires and explosions -- Disasters in the making.
"(This book) is a thrilling catalogue of catastrophes from the fall of Pompeii, the Black Death and the Spanish Inquisition, to the sinking of the Titanic and the Great Depression. Fire, flood, storm, drought, it's all here, including disasters of the 80s: AIDS, Chernobyl, the Alaskan oil spill and the San Francisco earthquake." -- BOOK JACKET.
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