![]() 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. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. 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. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great, untold natural disasters. ![]() ![]() Laki is Iceland's largest volcano-and its most fearsome. 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. ![]()
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