Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age lake that, when it suddenly drained, unleashed more that ten times the combined flow of all the modern rivers of the world. This is also the story of geologists grappling with scientific controversy -- "of how personalities, pride, and prejudice sometimes supersede scientific evidence". Illustrated with photographs and two-color maps, the book follows the path...