EREBUS THE ICE DRAGON: A Portrait of an Antarctic Volcano, by Colin Monteath (MUP, $65)
Mt Erebus rises with a graceful imperiousness above the icy Antarctic landscape. For the ancient Greeks, Erebus emerged from Chaos as the manifestation of primeval darkness, and in its benign moods the mountain dispatches an elegant plume of steam and smoke from its crater 3794m above the Ross Sea. But its mood can