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Adventures In Volcanoland - What Volcanoes Tell Us About The World And Ourselves (Paperback) Loot Price: R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
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Adventures In Volcanoland - What Volcanoes Tell Us About The World And Ourselves (Paperback): Tamsin Mather

Adventures In Volcanoland - What Volcanoes Tell Us About The World And Ourselves (Paperback)

Tamsin Mather

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Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these momentous geological formations, the cultural and religious roles they have played in the minds of those living around them at different times throughout history, and the science behind their formation and eruptions.

Volcanoes help to make and shape our world, bursting forth from inside of the earth and, in many places, looming over us. Present since the earth's beginning they continue to maintain its life support systems and, their extraordinary chemistry may even have created the ingredients needed for life to kick start.

In some places volcanoes are even beginning to provide us with part of the energy we need to curb our use of fossil fuels. They have fascinated humans for millennia, their eruptions charted throughout history, seeming to show us how the earth has been living, breathing and changing for billions of years.

Why exactly are these geological mammoths found where they are? What can they teach us about our environment, the Anthropocene and the ecological disaster that is climate change? Are there volcanoes on other planets, and what might they tell us about whether we could one day live there if we exhaust our own habitat? How can we predict if or when volcanoes might explode?

Adventures in Volcanoland is an enthralling mix of travel, science and environmental writing for fans of Robert MacFarlane and Raynor Winn.

General

Imprint: Abacus
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2024
Authors: Tamsin Mather
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-4087-1462-1
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Structure & properties of the Earth > Volcanology & seismology
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LSN: 1-4087-1462-0
Barcode: 9781408714621

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