Book Review

Each chapter... opens with lines Snorri (Icelandic poet) wrote eight centuries ago.

The dramatic book for grade-school readers by this team of adventurers (Laskey & Knight) tells the story in two exciting acts. The first was the birth of Surtsey, named after Surtur, the god of fire, who once came, the poet says, to fight the poison-spitting serpent from underseas. It was Icelandic sailors and scientists who first studied the place; their account and many pictures are here, at first all surf, flame, lava and sintered ash from two cratered cones high above three square miles of new land.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt