Writing style
Descriptive · Direct · Journalistic
Apple BooksEruption
History
- Print length
- 300 pagesW.W. Norton & Company, 2016
Description
In early 1980, Mount St. Helens began rumbling in southwestern Washington, drawing scientists, journalists, sightseers, and local residents into an anxious watch. Steve Olson recounts the mounting volcanic crisis while explaining the mountain’s place in the western volcanic chain associated with the Cascadia fault. He combines the event’s history and science with accounts of people affected by it. The eventual eruption removed the mountain’s summit, devastated hundreds of square miles of forest, and spread ash across the United States and Canada. Eruption presents both the immense geological forces at work and the human experience of confronting a major natural disaster.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Variable
Tone
Atmospheric · Earnest · Suspenseful · Tense
Structure
Chronological nonfiction
Focus
Atmosphere · Character · Information
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393242799
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