A Cold Welcome : : The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America / / Sam White.
Cundill History Prize Finalist Longman–History Today Prize Finalist “Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.” —Times Literary Supplement When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- 1. Where Everything Must Be Burning
- 2. Such Great Snows We Thought We Were Dead Men
- 3. The Land Itself Would Wage War
- 4. Bitter Remedies
- 5. We Had Changed Summer with Winter
- 6. Destroyed with Cruel Disease
- 7. Our Former Hopes Were Frozen to Death
- 8. Winter for Eight Months and Hell for Four
- 9. Death Follows Us Everywhere
- 10. Such Wonders of Afflictions
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index