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The year without summer : 1816 and the volcano that darkened the world and changed history
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
338 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
Traces a year of dramatic global change in the aftermath of a massive early nineteenth-century Indonesian volcanic eruption that disrupted weather patterns and triggered food shortages, religious revivals, migrations, and a typhus epidemic.
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Publication Information:
New York : St Martins Press, c2013.
Subject:
Volcanoes -- Indonesia -- Sumbawa Island -- History -- 19th century.
Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on
Tambora, Mount (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1815
Weather -- Effect of volcanoes on
SAILS ISBN:
9780312676452