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Author Wood, Gillen D'Arcy.

Title Tambora : the eruption that changed the world / Gillen D'Arcy Wood.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  363.34 WOO    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.3495 WOOD    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.3492 W85    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  363.34 WOOD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  363.3495 WOOD    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-280) and index.
Contents The Pompeii of the East -- The little (volcanic) Ice Age -- "This end of the world weather" -- Blue death in Bengal -- The seven sorrows of Yunnan -- The polar garden -- Ice tsunami in the Alps -- The other Irish famine -- Hard times at Monticello.
Subject Tambora, Mount (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1815.
Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- History -- 19th century.
Volcanoes -- Environmental aspects -- History -- 19th century.
Climatology -- Observations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780691150543 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0691150540 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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