Product Details
ISBN: 9780345408761
Category: Environmental Impact of Natural Disasters & Phenomena
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Catastrophe: An Investigation Into The Origins Of The Modern World
It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped out entire populations in Europe. Flood and drought brought ancient cultures to the brink of colla