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Vines Under Volcanoes

Ancient Survivors on the Canary Islands


photo of: El Teide by Nadia Fournier

It was November 1971, on La Palma, in the Canary Islands. Carlos Lozano, like everyone else on the island, had been feeling tremors for a month—small explosions, sounds coming from under the earth.

“I remember it was a Saturday. We were all watching television, sitting on the couch. And suddenly,…

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This story appears in the print issue of August 2015.
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