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Island on Fire - The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark (Paperback, Main)
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Island on Fire - The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R304
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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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