Awfully Present
Thomas Jones: The Tambora Eruption, 5 February 2015
Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World
by Gillen D’Arcy Wood.
Princeton, 293 pp., £19.95, April 2014,978 0 691 15054 3 Show More
by Gillen D’Arcy Wood.
Princeton, 293 pp., £19.95, April 2014,
“... eruption of Mount Laki in June 1783 presented Benjamin Franklin with a more serious problem. As Gillen D’ArcyWood recounts, Franklin was in Paris the following spring, negotiating peace terms with the British. ‘The makeshift US capital in Annapolis, Maryland, was snowbound, preventing assembly of congressional ... ”
