The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 - Couverture rigide

Shrady, Nicholas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670018511 ISBN 13 : 9780670018512

Editeur : Viking Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Shrady Nicholas

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full five days and left Lisbon thoroughly annihilated. Nicholas Shrady's unique account of this first modern disaster and its aftereffects successfully articulates the outcome of the earthquake-the eighteenth-century equivalent of a mass media frenzy giving rise to a host of other fascinating developments, such as disaster preparedness, landmark social reform, urban planning, and the birth of seismology.

Biographie de l'auteur

Nicholas Shrady is the author of Sacred Roads: Adventures from the Pilgrimage Trail. His articles have appeared in Architectural Digest, The New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, Forbes, and Town & Country.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670018511
• ISBN 13: 9780670018512
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible