The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902Open Road Media, 1 iul. 2014 - 308 pagini The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned. In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later. So how did a town of thousands not heed the warnings of nature and local scientists, instead staying behind to perish in the onslaught of volcanic ash? Why did the newspapers publish articles assuring readers that the volcano was harmless? And why did the authorities refuse to allow the American Consul to contact Washington about the conditions? The answer lies in politics: With an election on the horizon, the political leaders of Martinique ignored the welfare of their people in order to consolidate the votes they needed to win. A gripping and informative book on the disastrous effects of a natural disaster coupled with corruption, The Day the World Ended reveals the story of a city engulfed in flames and the political leaders that chose to kill their people rather than give up their political power. |
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A Cell with a View | |
SATURDAY MAY 3 1902 | |
Tumbled from | |
Lava in the Throat | |
The Whole World in Flood | |
Released to the Living | |
MONDAY MAY 5 1902 | |
The Pavement Slaughterhouse 133 | |
A Mountain on the March 145 | |
The Great Wave | |
A Shortage of Coffins | |
TUESDAY MAY 6 1902 | |
The Sympathy of the Government | |
SUNDAY MAY 4 1902 | |
Special Powers | |
A Black Mass | |
The Prison Riot | |
A Handful of Francs | |
The Deepening Crisis | |
A Fateful Reprieve | |
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Albert Decrais Amédee Knight anchor Andréus Hurard appeared Ascension Day ash falls Auguste Ciparis balcony Blanche River cable Captain Thirion Cathedral of Saint cell centipedes Church cloud Colette Colonies crater Curé Mary dead deck disaster Dominica eruption evacuate factory Father Alte Roche Father Roche fear feet Fernand Clerc fire Fort-de Fort-de-France France Gabriel Parel Governor Guérin hundred island James Japp Jaunville L’Heurre later lava Le Prêcheur looked Louis Mouttet Martinique mass MAX MORGAN-WITTS miles Montferrier Morne Rouge Mount Pelée mountain mulatto quarter night Orsolina panic Paris party Pelée’s Place Bertin political Pompeii Pouyer-Quertier Prêcheur priest prison Professor Landes Progressive Party Radical René Cottrell roadstead roaring rock Roraima Roxelane River Saint Pierre Sequin ship situation smoke Soufrière sound started stood streets Sunday Suzette Lavenière Thomas Prentiss threat town Vicar-General Victor Hugo village volcano voodoo watched water front wave wife yard