The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion [Hardcover]

John Baxter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1976

One of the great accidents of nature occurred in Siberia in 1908 when a fireball appeared over the horizon and slammed into a remote forest area of Siberia, creating shock waves which were felt half a world away.

THE FIRE CAME BY goes into great depth and explores not only what Russian scientists have to say about the affair today, but also enlightened opinions from scientists worldwide, as well as on-the-scene reports and interviews. The book makes the fantastic comprehensible and gives the event a threatening immediacy.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 165 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (June 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 038511396X
• ISBN-13: 978-0385113960
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,100,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars well written and researched book, July 15, 2011

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This review is from: The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion (Hardcover)

i enjoyed john baxter and thomas atkins' book. they do a very good job of painting in the historical background of tunguska explosion and the difficulties of the first explorers. they go a lot into the first explorer, leonid kulik and the amount of struggle he had to endure to get to the explosion site, through untraveled terrain, swamp, bogs, horrible weather and limited supplies. four things kulik discovered in his expeditions: the radically leveled forest, the branchless "telegraph trees" standing in the center, unusual burns on the trees and no fragments of meterorite anywhere. the book has many pictures of the devestation and are fascinating. as the decades past by, meterorite and comet explosions were disgarded for a possible extraterrestial object. thousands of soil samples have been taken by hundreds of researchers of various scientific backgrounds have combed the siberian landscape. and what they find is very intriguing. the nature of the explosion was a high-altitude nuclear explosion of 40 megatons. the cause of the explosion is still under investigation. there is a brief introduction by isaac asimov. i highly recommend reading this book if you are curious about what happened over russia in 1908.

7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Convincing proof of the demise of an alien space probe, November 19, 1999

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This review is from: The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion (Hardcover)

The authors provide convincing evidence, mostly from Russian scientific and international historical sources, that indicate that the massive explosion over Siberia in 1908 was not due to a black hole, or a comet, or a bolide, or any other hypothetical (unproven) natural cause, but was thermonuclear in type and that the object was seen by witnesses to maneuver, as if guided by intelligence, moments before its demise. The "Foreward" of the book, written by Isaac Asimov, may be summarized as "Hmmm, very interesting!" The reading experience is short but sweet; evidentiary photographs are included. It's the only convincing evidence I have seen about the possible origins of UFO's.

1 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I read this book 25 yrs. ago. I would like to review it !, August 16, 1999

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This review is from: The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion (Hardcover)

It has been a book that has been upon my mind since I first read it, and I feel that is of a significant value at this time!