A cold welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America /
When Europeans first arrived in North America, they found an often harsh and unfamiliar land in the grip of the coldest age for millennia, the "Little Ice Age." Spanish, French and English alike faced a century of disasters, setbacks and failures on the way to their first enduring foothold...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Where everything must be burning
- Such great snows we thought we were dead men
- The land itself would wage war
- Bitter remedies
- We had changed summer with winter
- Destroyed with cruel disease
- Our former hopes were frozen to death
- Winter for eight months and hell for four
- Death follows us everywhere
- Such wonders of afflictions.