Expanded from his encyclopaedia article, Rodwell’s book was meant to fill a gap: no English work then dealt with Etna as a whole. He describes the mountain’s physical features, his own ascent in 1877, the towns on its slopes such as Bronte, the history of its eruptions, and its geology and lavas.
A concise Victorian portrait of the great Sicilian volcano, for travellers and earth-science readers. Download the free EPUB.