Product Description

Geography with twice the gritty bits! Venture into the realms of a fiery, unstable world and... -Run for your life! as a earthquake sends the sea surging towards you in a gigantic wave. -Tremble! before geysers that could boil you alive. -Marvel! at red-hot volcanic rocks the size of cars. Violent Volcanoes is as hot as it gets. Read the diaries of volcano survivors, get clued-up with the spotter's guide to eruptions and plan a holiday with our volcano vacation guide. Earth-Shattering Earthquakes reveals how to stay alive in an earthquake strikes. Plus find out if you've got what it takes to become an earthquake expert.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #315804 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

V. Good book on earthquakes, how to track them, etc.
Very humourous book on earthquakes, and very easy to read.If you like Ganeri's other books in the "Horrible Geography" series, then you'll like this.

`Geography has never been such fun before!'
`Does Geography grind you down?
Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and dire diagrams?
Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you brace yourself for the shocking world of `Earth-shattering Earthquakes'......
Gasp! ...at the earthquake that made a river run backwards.
Run for your life! ...as an earthquake sends the sea surging towards you in a gigantic wave.
Giggle!...at the hamster shaken out of its cage by an earthquake.
And..... if that is not ground-breaking enough for you.......find out what it takes to become an earthquake expert, learn how to survive if an earthquake strikes and discover how rats and snakes can predict tremors.
It's earth shatteringly exciting!
Geography has never been so horrible!'

127 pages, split over 10 chapters:-

Introduction
A shocking true story
Cracking up
Whose fault is it?
Shattering shock waves
On very shaky ground
Earthquake experts
Shocking warning signs
Surviving the shock
A shaky future?

Written with the typical humour of this series of books, in a variety of fonts, interspersed with numerous black and white illustrations/cartoons.