Ralph Dinkel is a professional photographer based in Basel, Switzerland. He has visited the eastern part of Sicily and the Eolian Islands which are dominated by the presence of the vulcanoes Etna, Stromboli and Vulcano. The book shows some impressive landscape photographs of the area as well as impressions of the villages and cities around these vulcanoes, mainly the city of Catania which lies at the foot of mount Etna, the highest activ vulcano of Europe.