The Fire Came By: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion

John Baxter, Thomas Atkins (Author); Isaac Asimov (Introduction)

ISBN 10: 038511396X / ISBN 13: 9780385113960

Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1976

About this Item

165 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Relevant newspaper article(s)/Clipping(s) included from previous owner. Price cut from inside front flap.

Seller Inventory # 5iiiDc0011

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fire Came By: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038511396X
• ISBN 13: 9780385113960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Stanislav Zagorski (Jacket Design)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • UFO's, Alien Investigation, Space Expl, Phenomena
  • Science, Modern, Applied & Natural Sciences
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj) Hardcover first edition - Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, (1976). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj) . First printing. An account of an investigation into the most powerful unexplained explosion mankind has known. In the morning of June 30, 1908, a "cylindrical object blazed across central Siberia and the desolate Central Plateau shuddered under the impact of a cataclysmic explosion. The initial shock was followed by primary and secondary shock waves, a hideous firestorm and a black rain that contaminated hundreds of miles." Introduction by Isaac Asimov. Photographs. Bibliography. 165 pp. Map endpapers.

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