Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through
jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important
volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia,
exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these momentous geological
formations, the cultural and religious roles they have played in
the minds of those living around them at different times throughout
history, and the science behind their formation and eruptions.
Volcanoes help to make and shape our world, bursting forth from
inside of the earth and, in many places, looming over us. Present
since the earth's beginning they continue to maintain its life
support systems and, their extraordinary chemistry may even have
created the ingredients needed for life to kick start.In some
places volcanoes are even beginning to provide us with part of the
energy we need to curb our use of fossil fuels. They have
fascinated humans for millennia, their eruptions charted throughout
history, seeming to show us how the earth has been living,
breathing and changing for billions of years. Why exactly are these
geological mammoths found where they are? What can they teach us
about our environment, the Anthropocene and the ecological disaster
that is climate change? Are there volcanoes on other planets, and
what might they tell us about whether we could one day live there
if we exhaust our own habitat? How can we predict if or when
volcanoes might explode?Adventures in Volcanoland is an enthralling
mix of travel, science and environmental writing for fans of Robert
MacFarlane and Raynor Winn.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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