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The volcanoes covered in this book Yellowstone, Wyoming USA; Aconcagua, Argentina; Mauna Kea, Hawaii USA; Stromboli, Italy; Fujiyama, Japan; Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Vatnajokull, Iceland; Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland; Mount Etna, Italy; Several pages include photos that cover the entire page. This book is part of the series Grand The volumes of The Grand Tour are an invitation to visit one hundred of the world's greatest architectual masterpieces and forty of its most remarkable natural sites. For each work of architecture, full-color photographs are combined with a lively and authorative text that examinse the structure from an artistic perspective, explores its history, and appraises the monument as a statement of its time. For each natural wonder, dramatic color phographs are complemented by a text that discusses the geological history, local flora and fauna, and related events in human history.