"The story of how Death Valley was named is rather unexpected -- the people who named it survived! The forbidding landscape surely supports the name, but is the Dead Sea as aptly named? Readers find lots of interesting information like this when they pick up this book!"--Publisher's website.

Includes index.

The Graben of death -- Lands of fire -- Hell on Earth -- Fire Islands -- All your fault! -- Making mountains -- The grand wait -- Say what? -- All about Antarctica -- The map of weird geography.