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Mount Tambora Is Still Active, but It's Not Likely to Have a Devastating Eruption Again

Imagine a volcanic eruption so large it spewed 24 cubic miles of ash, rock, and gases into the air, produced smoke that could be seen from 300 miles away, and completely altered the planet's climate ...
Publishers Weekly

Q & A with Nicholas Day

When Mount Tambora, a volcano on the edge of the Indonesian archipelago, erupted in April 1815, it was the largest explosion in recorded history. In A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, A ...
insider.si.edu

The Year without a summer? world climate in 1816 edited by C.R. Harrington

Before Tambora : the sun and climate, 1790-1830 / John A. Eddy -- Eyewitness account of the distant effects of the Tambora eruption of April 1815 / Michael R. Rampino -- The eruption of Tambora in ...
The New York Times

The Volcanic Eruption That Created a Monster

In Nicholas Day’s “A World Without Summer,” Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for “Frankenstein.” By Abby McGanney Nolan Abby McGanney Nolan writes about ...