This book answers 1001 questions about all kinds of natural disasters: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, avalanches, landslides, floods, droughts, fires, and animal plagues. A very informative, readable book. 18 photographs, 23 line drawings.

Sweeping across the earth's surface and into the atmosphere are invisible masses of air--ever restless, ever moving. Set in motion by the heat of the sun, stirred by the spinning of the earth, directe