Alexandra Witze is an award-winning science journalist and correspondent for the journal Nature. Her reporting has taken her from the North Pole to report on climate change to the jungles of Guatemala to cover Maya archaeology and to China's quake-ravaged Sichuan province. Island on Fire is her first book.
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Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the eighteenth century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution. Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano—and its most fearso... SEE MORE