Super Volcanoes, Robin George Andrews
Super Volcanoes, Robin George Andrews
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Super Volcanoes
What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond

Author: Robin George Andrews

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/02/2021


Synopsis

An exhilarating, time-traveling journey to the solar system's strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes.

Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Despite their reputation for destruction, volcanoes are inseparable from the creation of our planet.

Super Volcanoes revels in the incomparable power of volcanic eruptions past and present, Earth-bound and otherwise, and explores how these eruptions reveal secrets about the worlds to which they belong. Science journalist and volcanologist Robin George Andrews describes the stunning ways in which volcanoes can sculpt the sea, land, and sky, and even influence the machinery that makes or breaks the existence of life. Traveling from Hawaii, Tanzania, Yellowstone, and the ocean floor to the moon, Venus, and Mars, Andrews explores cutting-edge discoveries and lingering scientific mysteries surrounding these phenomenal forces of nature.

About Robin George Andrews

Robin George Andrews is a science journalist with a PhD in volcanology. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, National Geographic, Scientific American, Atlas Obscura, and other publications. He lives in London, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on December 11, 2021

This is a good book with a misleading title. This is really a book about vulcanism in general as true super volcanoes make up only a fraction of the contents, as there is only a single chapter (out of 8) devoted to super volcanoes per se. I really enjoyed his detailed and in depth coverage of Yellow......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on March 24, 2022

'Super Volcanoes, What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond' by Robin George Andrews sent rivers of intellectual fire through the fissures of my brain matter! Boom! Boom! Boom! The shocking facts and figures of volcanoes on Earth and on the planets and moons in our solar system exploded off......more

Goodreads review by Yigal on January 28, 2022

great read about volcanoes. smart, clever, full of amazing and mostly unknown facts to general reader and written with a lovely touch of fun and humor. i have been on quite a lot of volcanoes worldwide and was and still fascinated by them so it gave me a lot to wonder and think about. great work.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on December 30, 2022

This is a book that would work better as a Discovery Channel or Nat Geo series than as a book. Maybe that is what Mr. Andrews was hoping for when he wrote it. Volcanoes are visually beautiful and the things about them that you cannot photograph lend themselves to explanatory animated graphics, plus......more

Goodreads review by Cade on February 25, 2022

This book is better than a 2-stars, but it was just 2 stars for me. The topics are well selected and are intrinsically interesting. I liked that half the chapters were about volcanoes on other bodies in the solar system besides Earth. However, I didn't personally enjoy the writing. The author's expl......more