Madam How and Lady Why [Paperback]

Charles Kingsley (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1404369791 | ISBN-13: 978-1404369795 | Publication Date: July 29, 2003

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IIL VOLCANOS. V/OLJ want to know why the Spaniards in Peru and Ecuador should have expected an earthquake. Because they had had so many already. The shaking of the ground in their country had gone on perpetually, till they had almost ceased to care about it, always hoping that no very heavy shock would come; and being, now and then, terribly mistaken. For instance, in the province of Quito, in the yeai 1797, from thirty to forty thousand people were killed at once by an earthquake. One would have thought that warning enough : but the warning was not taken: and now, this very year, thousands more have been killed in the very same country, in the very same way. They might have expected as much. For theii towns are built, most of them, close to volcanos—some of the highest and most terrible in the world. And wherever there are volcanos there will be earthquakes. You may have earthquakes without volcanos, now and then; but volcanos without earthquakes, seldom or never. How does that come to pass? Does a volcano make earthquakes? No; we may rather say that earthquakes are trying to make volcanos. For volcanos are the holes which the steam underground has burst open that it may escape into the air above. They are the chimneys of the great blastfurnaces underground, in which Madam How pounds and melts up the old rocks, to make them into new ones, and spread them out over the land above. And are there many volcanos in the world? You have heard of Vesuvius, of course, in Italy; and Etna, in Sicily; and Hecla, in Iceland. And you have heard, too, of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, and of Pele's Hair—the yellow threads of lava, like fine spun glass, which are blown from off its pools of fire, and which the Sandwich Islanders believed to be the hair of a go...

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: IndyPublish (July 29, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1404369791
• ISBN-13: 978-1404369795
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,490,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Typos galore, August 31, 2010

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This review is from: Madam How and Lady Why (1914) (Paperback)

My son was reading this book and in the very first pages of the first chapter, there were so many typographical errors that it was disgusting. How can someone sell a book with this many errors? I am returning the book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly difficult to read, July 28, 2011

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J. Lebow "crazy homeschooling mommy" (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Madam How and Lady Why (Kindle Edition)

Title pretty much says it. I was happy to find a book that describes how certain parts of earth were formed but this is SO hard to understand. It uses words that anyone under forty probably wouldn't even know what they mean. If it had pictures perhaps they would be more recognizable... Talks about god creating earth for his own reasons but in such a abstract way, totally incomprehensible. Skip this. Sorry to not like it. I tried, really I did. My kids tried too but in the end it was just wasting our time and we moved on to something else.