Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. 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.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Bookmarc's (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: SCW12062
Title: Surviving Galeras
Author: Williams, Stanley and Fen Montaigne
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0618031685
ISBN 13: 9780618031689
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Date Published: 2001
Keywords: Nonfiction Non-fiction Memoir Autobiography Natural Disaster Volcano Volcanic Disaster Galeras Nevado Del Ruiz Galeras Volcano Colombia Andean Volcano Field Research Science Scientist Scientists Natural Disaster Colombian Geologist November 1985 Armero Se
Bookseller catalogs: Geography & Maps; Disasters & Rescue; Biography / Memoirs; Science / History of Science; Biography / Autobiography: S-Z;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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