Tambora : : The Eruption That Changed the World / / Gillen D'Arcy Wood.
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 thr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 25 halftones. 25 line illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Note on Measurements
- Introduction. Frankenstein's Weather
- One. The Pompeii of the East
- Two. The Little (Volcanic) Ice Age
- Three. "This End of the World Weather"
- Four. Blue Death in Bengal
- Five. The Seven Sorrows of Yunnan
- Six. The Polar Garden
- Seven. Ice Tsunami in the Alps
- Eight. The Other Irish Famine
- Nine. Hard Times at Monticello
- Epilogue. Et in Extremis Ego
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index