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Witze, Alexandra.
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Jón Steingrímsson, 1728-1791.
Volcanic eruptions -- Social aspects -- Iceland.
Lava flows -- Iceland -- History -- 18th century.
Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Volcanology -- History.
Laki (Iceland) -- Eruption, 1783-1784.
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Witze, Alexandra.
Jón Steingrímsson, 1728-1791.
Volcanic eruptions -- Social aspects -- Iceland.
Lava flows -- Iceland -- History -- 18th century.
Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Volcanology -- History.
Laki (Iceland) -- Eruption, 1783-1784.
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Island on fire : the extraordinary story of a forgotten volcano that changed the world / Alexandra Witze & Jeff Kanipe.
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Witze, Alexandra.
Pegasus Books, 2015.
Call #:
551
.21094
W833i
Subjects
Jón Steingrímsson, 1728-1791.
Volcanic eruptions -- Social aspects -- Iceland.
Lava flows -- Iceland -- History -- 18th century.
Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Volcanology -- History.
Laki (Iceland) -- Eruption, 1783-1784.
ISBN:
9781605986746 (hc.)
1605986747 (hc.)
Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Description:
224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published with subtitle: The extraordinary story of Laki, the forgotten volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark. London : Profile Books, 2014. With new foreword.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
Contents:
Preface : Heimaey, 1973 -- Laki erupts : June 1783 -- Land of ice and fire : the volcanoes of Iceland -- Supervolcanoes : the world's hotspots -- Fire, famine and death : the poisoning of Iceland -- Horrible phenomena : Europe's 'year of wonders' -- The big chill : Laki's global fallout -- Laki today : life in the mountain's shadow -- Death by volcano : the many ways eruptions can kill -- The next big bang : how worried should we be? -- Epilogue : Return to history.
Summary:
An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, even perhaps revolution. Laki is one of Iceland's most fearsome volcanoes. 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. 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. In the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, which closed European air space in 2010, science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime.
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Kanipe, Jeff, 1953-
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