The Red Volcanoes: Face to Face with the Mountains of Fire

Bys: G. Brad Lewis and Lajartre Paul De

All of the elements that form our planet were originally forged in cosmic furnaces: all the food we eat and thus our bodies themselves recycle atoms that once know volcanic fire.

The most active--and most visited--volcano on earth is Kilauea in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, seen by three million people every year. Along with its counterpart Piton de La Fournaise, on the French island of R?union in the Indian Ocean, it is characterized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500543402
• ISBN13: 9780500543405
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Photographs

This book has an excellent collection of volcano photos. The photos themselves show a variety of scenes from lava flows, to bubbling lava, volcanoes, the destruction caused by volcanoes and much more. Each color plate includes a description of where it was taken. Great stuff!

An extraordinary pick, capturing these volcanoes close-up and in action.

THE RED VOLCANOES: FACE TO FACE WITH THE MOUNTAINS OF FIRE surveys some of the most active volcanoes on earth - in Hawaii and on Reunion in the Indian Ocean - and are the focus of a photo essays by two photographers who have spent years capturing these most active volcanoes. While this could've also been featured in our Photography Shelf section, it's the science collection that will find it an extraordinary pick, capturing these volcanoes close-up and in action. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch