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9781559705585

Weather Factor : How Nature Has Changed History

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  • ISBN13:

    9781559705585

  • ISBN10:

    1559705582

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-04-02
  • Publisher: Arcade Pub
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Summary

The fast-paced sequel to the sleeper hit of the spring season, The Hinge Factor, this absorbing & invigorating historical survey looks at the surprising & unexpected ways in which human history has been decisively altered at critical moments by the unaccountable whim of nature.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
ix
Acknowledgements xi
Prologue
1(2)
The Bible tells us so
3(6)
The lost legions of Varus
9(30)
The Divine Wind
39(16)
The night it rained on Paris
55(18)
The frozen armada
73(14)
A brave called Tecumseh
87(20)
Two bridges to cross
107(21)
The Great Potato Famine
128(19)
The white death
147(20)
The week the panzers froze
167(48)
Unexpected new developments
215(2)
For those in peril on the sea
217(20)
A deluge of fire
237(36)
The wind factor
273(6)
Death in the Delta
279(16)
`Owning the Weather in 2025'
295(14)
Bibliography 309(7)
Index 316

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