A review by caffeine_books
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson

challenging informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

A wonderful story not only about the mountain itself and its famous explosion on May 18th, 1980 but also tells the story of the Pacific Northwest in the hundred years or so before the explosion occurred.  The author did a thorough job researching the logging and other economic impacts on the region as well as political that resulted in the human disaster that occurred on May 18th.  Does a wonderful job of exploring the after effects as well and the lessons to be learned from that beautiful, dreadful day.