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Tambora and the Year without a Summer

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Tambora and the Year without a Summer

By Wolfgang Behringer

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In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive flooding in Asia. Western Europe and North America experienced a "year without a summer," while failed harvests in 1817 led to the "year of famine." At the time, nobody knew that all these disturbances were the result of a single event: the eruption of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia - the greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history. In this book, leading climate historian Wolfgan...Show more

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9781509525492

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Tambora and the Year without a Summer

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Hardcover

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