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Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us about the World and Ourselves

by Tamsin Mather

Volcanoes across landscapes and cultures

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    Library Journal Best Book of 2024

    Named a Library Journal Best Book of 2024.

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Volcanoes across landscapes and cultures

Tamsin Mather combines memoir, travel, and popular science in journeys to volcanoes across regions including Nicaragua, Hawaii, Santorini, and Ethiopia. The book connects the science of how volcanoes form and erupt with their cultural roles through history, placing geological processes in a wider human and environmental context. Its route spans varied landscapes, from deserts and jungles to ice caps, giving the subject a global scope.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in volcanoes and earth science
  • Readers who enjoy travel writing alongside popular science
  • Those curious about the cultural significance of volcanoes

Themes

VolcanologyTravel and landscapesVolcanoes in human history and cultureEarth’s geological processes

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Book overview

*A Library Journal Best Book of 2024*

A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the world

In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning excursions from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia and beyond. With warmth and lyricism, she explores the cultural roles volcanoes play throughout history, and the growing and evolving science behind their formation and eruptions.

Adventures in Volcanoland is an urgent and poetic exploration into the world's most mysterious geological mountains and how they make and shape our world.
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