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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 09 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by John Lescault. |
| Summary |
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 it's most fearsome. 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. Island on Fire is 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. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Jón Steingrímsson, 1728-1791.
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Laki (Iceland) -- Eruption, 1783-1784.
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Volcanic eruptions -- Social aspects -- Iceland.
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Lava flows -- Iceland -- History -- 18th century.
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Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Volcanology -- History.
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Kanipe, Jeff, 1953- author.
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Lescault, John, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982586867 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982586869 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12248304 |
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