Lessons from the island of fire [Book interview]

MOST OF us will remember the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull four years ago. For those living in Britain perhaps the most serious consequence of the seismic activity was the almost total disruption to air traffic due to colossal ash clouds circulating in the atmosphere. For Iceland, where the volcano is located, such was the intensity of Vulcan´s wrath that it even managed to knock the country´s impending bankruptcy off the front pages, with tales of an island on fire.