Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910

By Jeffrey H. Jackson

Book Overview

In the winter of 1910, the river that brought life to Paris the Seine became a force of destruction in a matter of hours. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil, and faulty engineering created... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230617069
• ISBN13: 9780230617063
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.1" x 6.5"