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The endless fascination of volcanoes

Tamsin Mather is the latest highly articulate volcanologist to combine vivid personal experience with thoughtful scientific explanation

11 May 2024

9:00 AM

11 May 2024

9:00 AM

Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell us About the World and Ourselves Tamsin Mather

Abacus, pp.368, 19.99

Volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes. You wait years for a good book or a film about volcanoes to come along and then they blow up all at once. In 2022, Sara Dosa’s incredible, unmissable – incroyable! incontournable! – documentary about the eccentric French filmmakers and volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, Fire of Love, was nominated for an Oscar.

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