Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark

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With vivid prose, Tom Zoellner captures the horrors of the brutal sugar plantations of Jamaica as well as that brief but transcendent moment when a group of enslaved people sought, against tremendous odds, to transform the island into a space of liberation. Island on Fire offers a haunting parable of how history is made and remade up to the present day. ” — Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn

I thought it was a unique take, using death as part of the story of love, friendship, and having one last Summer on Fire Island to be with her husband in spirit, try to move forward. They also touch on further interesting points such as: did J.W. Turner and Edward Munch paint red skylines because there was so much volcanic particulate in the air at those times? How do you divert a bajillion tons of angry lava away from your tiny Icelandic fishing village, both in the 18th century and in 1973? Ancient Danish/Icelandic warrior kings with weird bone structure--early victims of fluorine poisoning?There are two different versions of this film: a 96-minute Hong Kong version and a 125-minute Taiwan version which focuses more on character development and plot detail.

Remarkable to me was the retribution against white missionaries as well as the massive burning of Baptist and Methodist churches, seen as to blame for the uprising and the loss of income. Only when a leading politician of the island had the foresight to see such activity would only make matters worse for the slaveholders with the British Parliament did the violence abide.On the night of December 27, 1831, a watchman standing on top of the courthouse in the Jamaican city of Montego Bay spotted a fire on a hillside south of town. Then another fire appeared close by. Then another.