Cover Image

The year of no summer : a reckoning /

On April 10th, 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted. A build-up of ash in the stratosphere altered weather patterns and lead, in 1816, to a year without a summer. Instead, there were June snowstorms, food shortages, epidemics, inventions and the proliferation of new cults and religious reviv...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lebowitz, Rachel, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Canadian essays > 21st century.
Tambora, Mount (Indonesia) > Eruption, 1815 > Environmental aspects.
Weather > Effect of volcanic eruptions on.
Weather > Psychological aspects.
Weather > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Their useless wings
  • Mud
  • Tambora
  • The last frost fair
  • The garden of the fugitives
  • Ragnarok
  • Daedalus
  • Medusa
  • The children of famine
  • Let not the Lord
  • The ice maiden
  • The Laufmashine
  • Afterword: The path.