Adventures in Volcanoland, Tamsin Mather
Adventures in Volcanoland, Tamsin Mather
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Adventures in Volcanoland
An Exploration of Volcanic Places and What They Tell Us About the World and About Ourselves

Author: Tamsin Mather

Narrator: Emma Spurgin Hussey

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2024

Synopsis

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.

About Tamsin Mather

Tamsin Matheris Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining thefaculty at Oxford in 2006, she was a research council fellow atthe UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and a Royal Societyresearch fellow. She has published over 145 scientific papers and won numerousprizes including the 2018 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendan

It is important to be honest with yourself as a reviewer. When you don't connect with a book, you need to be able to answer the question, "Why?" I ran into this with Tamsin Mather's Adventures in Volcanoland. Why didn't I connect with it? Well, simply, it's all my fault. I want to be clear that this......more

Goodreads review by Ben

Wish this had been more of an adventure. Mather narrates the audiobook herself and does a good job, which is more than can be said of some authors deciding to read their own work. But her soothing delivery actually had the effect of making it difficult - for me, at least - to stay focused on the mat......more

Goodreads review by Blair

“Adventures in Volcanoland” is a book about how, where, and why volcanos are formed, why they erupt, and how they continuously shape our world. It’s also a book about how volcanos help keep Earth in balance, maintaining this “Goldilocks” (my quote) environment and temperature, and permitting life on......more

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