This gulf of fire : the destruction of Lisbon, or apocalypse in the age of science and reason /
On All Saints Day of 1755, the tremors from a magnitude 8.5 earthquake swept furiously from its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean toward the Iberian Peninsula. Nowhere was it felt more than in Lisbon, then the thriving capital of a great global empire. In a few minutes most of Lisbon was destroyed, bu...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Molesky, Mark |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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