Land Of Ice And Fire Iceland

Iceland

This lush travel guide, filled with breathtaking photos, celebrates the world's most unique island--and popular tourist hotspot. Lying just south of the Arctic Circle, but warmed by Gulf Stream waters, Iceland is one of the world's most unusual countries. Explore the island's magnificent landscape through more than 200 superb color photographs and expert commentary. Stunning images capture its volcanoes and lava flows, geysers and geothermal pools, national parks, wildlife, verdant valleys, inland tundra, and the bustling capital city of Reykjavik.

Land of Ice and Fire

Island on Fire

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 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.