The year without summer
Glasfurd-Brown, Guinevere2020
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1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, ship surgeon Henry Hogg can barely believe his eyes. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea turned to stone. But worse is yet to come: as the ash cloud rises and covers the sun, the seasons will fail. 1816. In Switzerland, Mary Shelley finds dark inspiration. Confined inside by the unseasonable weather, thousands of famine refugees stream past her door. In Vermont, preacher Charles Whitlock begs his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells and their livestock starve. In Britain, the ambitious and lovesick painter John Constable struggles to reconcile the idyllic England he paints with the misery that surrounds him. In the Fens, farm labourer Sarah Hobbs has had enough of going hungry while the farmers flaunt their wealth.
Main title:
The year without summer / Guinevere Glasfurd.
Author:
Glasfurd-Brown, Guinevere, author
Imprint:
London : Two Roads, 2020.
Collation:
xiv, 392 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781473672291 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92HIS
Language:
English
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BRN:
1954973
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