Parsing eruptions

摘要

Two chronicles of two volcanic eruptions - 32 years and thousands of kilometres apart - are emerging within months of each other. In Island on Fire, Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe examine the late-eighteenth-century Lakagigar eruption (usually known as Laki) in Iceland. Gillen D'Arcy Wood gives us Tambora, a history of an 1815 colossal super-eruption in Indonesia that had a worldwide impact. Both left indelible marks in the historical and cultural, as well as geological, records.