'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.
