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THE FIRE CAME BY: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion.
by Baxter, John and Thomas Atkins; Introduction by Isaac Asimov
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj) /very good
- ISBN 10
- 038511396X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385113960
- Seller
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78878
- Title
- THE FIRE CAME BY: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion.
- Author
- Baxter, John and Thomas Atkins; Introduction by Isaac Asimov
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 038511396X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385113960
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY:
- Date Published
- (1976)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Space;
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