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    Island on fire : the extraordinary story of a forgotten volcano that changed the world / Alexandra Witze & Jeff Kanipe.

    By: Witze, Alexandra [author.]Contributor(s): Kanipe, Jeff, 1953- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover editionDescription: 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781605986746; 1605986747; 9781605989587; 1605989584Subject(s): Laki (Iceland) -- Eruption, 1783-1784 | Volcanic eruptions -- Social aspects -- Iceland | Lava flows -- Iceland -- History -- 18th century | Jón Steingrímsson, 1728-1791 | Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Volcanology -- HistoryDDC classification: 551.210949120903 LOC classification: QE523.L25 | W57 2015
    Contents:
    Preface : Heimaey, 1973 -- 1. Laki erupts : June 1783 -- 2. Land of ice and fire : the volcanoes of Iceland -- 3. Supervolcanoes : the world's hotspots -- 4. Fire, famine and death : the poisoning of Iceland -- 5. Horrible phenomena : Europe's 'year of wonders' -- 6. The big chill : Laki's global fallout -- 7. Laki today : life in the mountain's shadow -- 8. Death by volcano : the many ways eruptions can kill -- 9. The next big bang : how worried should we be? -- Epilogue : return to Heimaey.
    Summary: Documents the human experience of the cataclysmic late-18th-century eruption of Iceland's largest volcano to illuminate how its fallout of disease, famine and revolution changed the course of history.
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    "January 2015"--Title page verso.

    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.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.

    Preface : Heimaey, 1973 -- 1. Laki erupts : June 1783 -- 2. Land of ice and fire : the volcanoes of Iceland -- 3. Supervolcanoes : the world's hotspots -- 4. Fire, famine and death : the poisoning of Iceland -- 5. Horrible phenomena : Europe's 'year of wonders' -- 6. The big chill : Laki's global fallout -- 7. Laki today : life in the mountain's shadow -- 8. Death by volcano : the many ways eruptions can kill -- 9. The next big bang : how worried should we be? -- Epilogue : return to Heimaey.

    Documents the human experience of the cataclysmic late-18th-century eruption of Iceland's largest volcano to illuminate how its fallout of disease, famine and revolution changed the course of history.

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