Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark by Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe

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

Alexandra Witze, Jeff Kanipe

224 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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 yea...

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