Stephen L. Harris grew up in western Washington where the views of
Mount Rainier, with its mantle of glacial ice and steaming summit
crater, inspired a life-long interest in the eruptive potential of
the Cascade volcanoes. During the last several decades Harris has
experienced intimately some of nature's most spectacular powers. He
has climbed over, under, and inside active glaciers, scaled icy
mountains to camp inside steaming craters, shuddered with the
thrill of the earth trembling beneath his feet, and viewed a
death-dealing volcanic eruption at close range.
In 1976 he published Fire and Ice, the first book devoted to
surveying the geologic history and assessing the volcanic hazards
of each major peak in the Cascade Range. Pursuing an avocation in
geology, Harris has also published Agents of Chaos (Mountain Press,
1990), which deals with earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and other
natural disasters.
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