Tambora : the eruption that changed the world /

Tambora : the eruption that changed the world /

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Author / Creator:	Wood, Gillen D'Arcy.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	xiv, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Eruption of Mount Tambora (Indonesia : 1815) Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- History -- 19th century. Volcanoes -- Environmental aspects -- History -- 19th century. Climatology -- Observations -- History -- 19th century. Climatology -- Observations. Volcanoes -- Environmental aspects. Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on. Tambora, Mount (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1815. Indonesia -- Mount Tambora. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10352754

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ISBN:	9780691150543 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0691150540 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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 impacts of drastic climate change in our own century.

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