Tambora The Eruption That Changed the World

Name: Tambora The Eruption That Changed the World
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ISBN: 9780691150543

ISBN-10: 0691150540

ISBN-13: 9780691150543

Edition: 2014

Authors: Gillen D'Arcy Wood

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When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Amid devastating storms, drought, and floods, communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale. On the eve of the bicentenary of the great eruption, Tambora tells the extraordinary story of the weather chaos it wrought, weaving the latest climate science with the social history of this frightening period to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/27/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.55" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Gillen D'Arcy Wood is professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he directs the Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities. He has written extensively on the cultural and environmental history of the nineteenth century.