When the Planet Rages: Natural Disasters, Global Warming and the Future of the Earth

by Charles Officer and Jake Page

Book Overview

In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Europe, it was even worse, with food riots and armed groups raiding bakeries and grain markets. All this turmoil followed a catastrophic volcanic eruption--a year earlier on the other side of the world--the eruption of Tambora, a blast heard almost a thousand miles away.
In When the Planet Rages, Charles Officer and Jake Page describe some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019537701X
• ISBN13: 9780195377019
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"