Island on Fire : The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark

Name: Island on Fire
Brand: Profile Books Ltd
SKU: 9781781252666
Price: 2000 KES
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ISBN: 9781781252666

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by Alexandra Witze , Jeff Kanipe

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1781252661

ISBN-13 9781781252666

Edition Main

Publisher Profile Books Ltd

Imprint Profile Books Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 19th, 2017

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 164 grams

Dimensions 13.10 x 19.70 x 0.20 cms

Product Classification: Iceland Popular science Volcanology & seismology Volcanology and seismology

KSh 2,000.00

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The 1783 eruption of Laki led to Europe's year without summer - and it is due again soon.

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 the history and potential of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime.

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