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Author Witze, Alexandra, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Pegasus Books, [2015]
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  551.21 WITZE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  551.2109 WITZE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  551.21 WITZE    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  551.21 WIT    Check Shelf
Edition First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Description 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
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 history.
Subject Jón Steingrímsson, 1728-1791.
Volcanic eruptions -- Social aspects -- Iceland.
Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Volcanology -- History.
Lava flows -- Iceland -- History -- 18th century.
Laki (Iceland) -- Eruption, 1783-1784.
Added Author Kanipe, Jeff, 1953- author.
ISBN 9781605986746
1605986747
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