Iceland Volcano

Author : Mark Reed
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908105011
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iceland Volcano written by Mark Reed and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written to be a self help book so that the public in general can protect themselves from the worst effects of the next Icelandic volcanic eruptions. We have already seen in March and April of 2010 what a small volcanic eruption did when Eyjafjallajokull blew up and caused chaos over the skies of Europe and North America. This was the least harmful perhaps of all 18 -- 25 massive strato volcanoes some of which I believe could erupt in the next 5 years. Ones like Katla which are linked to EJ (short version of Eyjafjallajokull) are about 10 times bigger than EJ. Then there is Laki which erupted in 1783 and 1784 and caused a huge cloud of yellow poison mustard gas to spread over Europe potentially killing about 1 million people and yet no one today knows about this volcano, this is one of the biggest killers the world has ever known possibly killing up to 6 million people worldwide due to its effects upon the Jet stream and Monsoon rains and yet only a handful of Nordic Volcanologists and scientists seem to know about it. My book will educate the public to the dangerous relationship between human civilizations and volcanic eruptions which have profoundly changed the way previous civilizations and historical eras progressed or collapsed as the case may be.

Author : Judith Fradin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426308159
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volcano! written by Judith Fradin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses why and how volcanoes erupt and provides an historical account of major volcanic activity through time.

Author : Alexandra Witze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781252666
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island on Fire written by Alexandra Witze and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William George Lock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Askja, Iceland's largest volcano written by William George Lock and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard S. Williams
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437900429
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Against Volcano written by Richard S. Williams and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the impact of the 1973 volcanic eruption of Eldfell on the fishing port of Vestmannaeyjar on the island of Heimaey, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Before the eruption was over, approx. one-third of the town had been obliterated, but, more importantly, the potential damage probably was reduced by the spraying of seawater onto the advancing lava flows. There was interest in the course of the Heimaey eruption because of the possibility that the procedures used to control flowing lava & to reduce the damage to a modern town may some day be useful in Hawaii & possibly even in the continental U.S. Photos, maps & drawings.

Author : Ellen J. Prager
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426207611
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volcano written by Ellen J. Prager and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated volcano guide documents the twenty hottest volcanoes of the Earth, including recent eruptions that seared landscapes and lives.

Author : Jón Steingrímsson
Publisher : University of Iceland Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fires of the Earth written by Jón Steingrímsson and published by University of Iceland Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the greatest lava flow in historical times, which occurred in Iceland only two hundred years ago, is a unique eye-witness record of a dramatic natural catastrophe which threatened the lives of a small nation in the high north. It was the Reverend Jon Steingrimsson, a living legend in his day for a sermon said to have halted the glowing molten lava as it cascaded towards his church, who described this merciless outburst of nature's fury. His original observations and insights make this work at once a scientific classic and a literary gem. With typical humility, the author describes his own motive for writing it: "I thought it would be unfortunate if these memories should be lost and forgotten upon my departure, as have so many other works of God which have, for lack of care, been lost forever."

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Against Volcano written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexandra Witze
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605987352
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island on Fire written by Alexandra Witze and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Eyjafjallajökull, 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.

Author : Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802149243
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Iceland written by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman.” —Bookpage In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces’s Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla’s opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot. Hemlines are rising. In Iceland, another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art—as she realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost. Miss Iceland, a winner of two international book awards, comes from the acclaimed author of Hotel Silence, which received the Icelandic Literary Prize. “Only a great book can make you feel you’re really there, a thousand miles and a generation away. I loved it.” —Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon “[A] winning tale of friendship and self-fulfillment.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review