MOUNTAINS OF FIRE

If Michael Palin had been a volcanologist this is the book he would have written LITERARY REVIEW Gripping THE ECONOMIST Wonderful PETER FRANKOPAN Like a thriller This is terrific SPECTATOR Beautiful bursting with poetry with storytelling WERNER HERZOG We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes No matter where we live on the planet they have shaped our history and might one day decide our destiny World famous volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer has worked at the crater s edge in the wildest places on Earth close enough to feel the heat of the lava In Mountains of Fire we join him on hair singeing adventures from Italy to Antarctica to learn how deeply our stories are intertwined with volcanoes