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Island on Fire

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Island on Fire

By Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe

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About the book

Laki is Iceland's largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe.Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as ...Show more

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9781781252666

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2017

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1

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Island on Fire

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Paperback

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