by Richard Hamblyn · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781780233475
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«Tsunami: Nature and Culture» is Richard Hamblyn's historical and scientific popular-science essay, published by Reaktion Books in paperback (184 pages).
The book combines science, history and culture to explain why tsunamis form, what makes them so devastating and how to protect coastlines at risk. Hamblyn surveys their cultural significance in Japan, Hawaii and Chile and their place in the West, where they appear mainly in popular culture and movies. It also evokes the legend of Atlantis.
Part of the Earth series from Reaktion Books. Published in 2014; full text in English.
For readers interested in natural history, science and natural disasters.
Richard Hamblyn is a British environmental writer and historian. He is a lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and has contributed articles and reviews to the Sunday Times, The Guardian, the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.
