This Volcanic Isle explores the rich geological history of the British Isles over the past 66 million years, since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. From the Isle of Wight needles to the Giant's causeway to the Sticklepath faultline in Devon, this book recounts how earthquakes and eruptions, plumes and plate boundaries, built the British Isles. For the most part, Britain exists in a state of tectonic tranquility ... but it was not always thus, as this entertaining new book makes clear. And the evidence of this green and pleasant land's violent past is all around us - you just need to know where ... to look.