Description: This Gulf of Fire : The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason, Paperback by Molesky, Mark, ISBN 030738750X, ISBN-13 9780307387509, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.
On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared.
Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment.
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Book Title: This Gulf of Fire : the Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
Number of Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Modern / 18th Century, Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Natural Disasters, Europe / Western, Fire Science, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Nature, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science, History
Item Weight: 14.8 Oz
Author: Mark Molesky
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
