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FRANKEL, C. 2005. Worlds on Fire. Volcanoes on the Earth, the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io.

viii + 358 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £25.00, US $40.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 521 80393 4.

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Charles Frankel’s excellent Volcanoes of the Solar System (Cambridge University Press, 1996) is now out of print. This book, by the same publisher, is clearly intended as its successor. Comparing the two, it is not difficult to find passages of text and illustrations that they share in common. However, the new book is considerably updated, notably in being a post-Galileo account of the volcanism of Io and in including some recent high-resolution images of Martian volcanic features. The glossary, absent from the previous book, will be of benefit to readers unfamiliar with terms such as hyaloclastite and tholeiite. However I was surprised to see a glossary entry for ‘vacuole’, defined as ‘cavity . . . [Full Text of this Article]