epub |eng | | Author:Alexandra Witze

This soothing explanation, however, was challenged by many natural scientists throughout Europe. And there’s little evidence that it calmed the minds of the people, especially when they had the chance ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Wood, Gillen DArcy

A CATASTROPHE, BUT NOT CATASTROPHISM Now largely forgotten outside Switzerland, the 1818 Val de Bagnes disaster was nevertheless widely reported in the European press and became a major talking point ...

epub |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

The Dollar Real Money: a 1922 U.S. silver dollar. The most ordinary thing in the world, a scrap of paper: a buck, a greenback. The dollar: flimsy fuel for the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:William K. Klingaman & Nicholas P. Klingaman [Klingaman, William K. & Klingaman, Nicholas P.]

8. THE PRICE OF BREAD “There has not been this whole summer one day of steady sunshine, not one day of heat, nor one night when a coverlet and blanket ...

epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester

The elegant copperplate and exquisitely courteous tone of Consul Cameron’s lengthy Krakatoa dispatch to Lord Granville, in London. The error is understandable. Kennedy had in fact been consul in Sumatra, ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Jerry Thompson; Simon Winchester

Gary Carver’s memory of that deceptively sunny day was just as vivid. The shockwaves hit while he was driving to his office on the Humboldt State campus in Arcata. After ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-03 | Author:Simon Winchester

The British consul in Batavia at the time was one Alexander Patrick Cameron; and five days later he sat down in his study and had his confidential clerk write out, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Simon Winchester

Krakatoa's final twenty hours and fifty-six minutes were marked by a number of phases. First, from early afternoon on Sunday until about 7 p.m. there was a series of explosions ...