Out Of The Crater. Chronicles Of A Volcanologist

Volcanologists work around craters of boiling magma and amidst smoke, flames, scorched rocks, and clouds of noxious gases - balancing personal risk against advancing knowledge about one of nature's most dangerous and unpredictable forces. Richard Fisher has had more than forty years of experience in the field. In this book, he blends autobiography with clear, accessible science to introduce readers to the basics of volcanology and to the wonders of volcanoes that he has studied and learned to both fear and admire.