The true-life adventure story of one of the world's leading volcano experts. In 1993, Stanley Williams was investigating Galeras, what he thought was a dormant volcano in Colombia. But it blew, killing nine members of his expedition; against all odds Williams survived. This book is both the scientific story of how human beings have tried to tame these pipelines to the centre of the earth and the terrifying tale of what it is like to be caught up in a volcanic explosion.
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The true-life adventure story of one of the world's leading volcano experts. In 1993, Stanley Williams was investigating Galeras, what he thought was a dormant volcano in Colombia. But it blew, killing nine members of his expedition; against all odds Williams survived. This book is both the scientific story of how human beings have tried to tame these pipelines to the centre of the earth and the terrifying tale of what it is like to be caught up in a volcanic explosion.
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Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $11.31, very good condition, Sold by Jenhams rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dundee, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Little, Brown.
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Very Good condition, slight creasing to spine. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $13.07, very good condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Little Brown.
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Very good. No jacket. VGC. Little Brown, 2001. First UK edition-first printing. Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine)in VGC, no Dj cover. Illustrated with a colour map inside the front and back cover, b/w photos. Nice and clean pages with a small nick and light shelf wear on the outer edges, very small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. The book is in VGC but without Dj cover.270pp. including Bibliography and index.
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $4.02, very good condition, Sold by Roger Lucas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Horncastle, Lincs, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Little Brown.
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $5.35, like new condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Little, Brown & Company.
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Fine. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket with sticker on it. Faint marks on textblock. Contents unread/like new. 320 p. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified.
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $22.77, like new condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Little, Brown & Company.
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $9.48, good condition, Sold by Goodwill Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hillsboro, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Houghton Mifflin.
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $12.50, very good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. BG4-A hard cover first edition book in very good+ condition. A sequence of numbers with the "1" present and with no additional printings indicated on the copyright page. A tight, clean, sound copy in textured orange paper covered boards quarter bound in blue cloth with gold lettering and graphics on the spine and pictoral two-color endpapers with only very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear. A memoir by the survivor of a volcanic disaster on January 14, 1993 that killed nine men, six from a team of scientists and three tourists, examining the crater of Galeras, an Andean volcano in southern Columbia. Bibliography, acknowledgments, indexed, 270p.
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $13.00, like new condition, Sold by Bookwitch rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Concord, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. First Edition. 1st Printing.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in lightly edgeworn blue pictorial dj. 1st Printing. 270 pp. including index. Maps on end papers, 16p. black & white photos. Story of a volcano in Columbia. A volcanologist's first-person account of surviving the Galeras eruption and its aftermath. Giftable.
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $13.95, very good condition, Sold by Books of Paradise rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Magalia, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Co..
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0618031685. Book and DJ have very light edgewear, tiny bump to top edge of rear cover; DJ has couple small wrinkles; b/w photos; 270 pages.
Add this copy of Surviving Galeras to cart. $14.00, very good condition, Sold by Redbrick Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Light wear clean copy--------William's own near-death experience on Galeras drives thiis riveting story.
