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020 $a037550303X (acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aQC929.A8$bJ46 2000
082 00 $a363.34/9$221
100 1 $aJenkins, McKay,$d1963-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96033729
245 14 $aThe white death :$btragedy and heroism in an avalanche zone /$cMcKay Jenkins.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c2000.
263 $a0002
300 $axxi, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"In The White Death, McKay Jenkins unfolds a gripping natural history of avalanches, framed by the story of one of the worst avalanche disasters in mountaineering history. In 218 B.C., Hannibal lost more than eighteen thousand men, two thousand horses, and several elephants in deadly slides in the Italian Alps.
520 8 $aDuring the First World War, combatants launched explosives onto the slopes above enemy troops, triggering slides that killed more effectively than firepower - and, paradoxically, pioneered the technology now used to tame avalanches on ski slopes all over the world." "The White Death merges a fascinating natural history with a cautionary tale of the damage our sense of invincibility can do in the face of awesome natural power."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAvalanches.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85010490
650 0 $aAvalanches$zMontana$zGlacier National Park.
852 00 $boff,glx$hQC929.A8$iJ46 2000