Thought by many to be rare or unprecedented events, avalanches do occur in ?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Newfoundland and Labrador, often with devastating results. This book details how avalanches have affected the people of the province in the last 250 years. Where possible, the words of those present as reported in contemporary accounts are used to describe the incidents, and in a few cases the direct accounts of survivors are used. The stories told are often tragic-over sixty people have been killed in the province by this phenomenon—but all serve as lessons to be learned on the dangers of avalanches.?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

David Liverman was born in Accra, Ghana, and is a geologist with the Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador, specializing in environmental geology. He is also an adjunct professor of geography at Memorial University. He and his colleagues have been researching geological hazards in the province for over a decade. He holds degrees from the universities of Edinburgh and Alberta, and has been a St. John’s resident since 1988. He has published numerous scientific papers and reports, and this is his first book.

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