Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

by Philipp Blom

Book Overview

Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames--with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city.

Recounting the deep legacy and far-ranging consequences of this "Little Ice Age,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163149404X
• ISBN13: 9781631494048
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"