Rachel Lebowitz

The Year of No Summer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lebowitz highlights the parables, fables and myths we humans created in order to weave meaning into our lives and to which we return for comfort. Atlantic Books Today

On April 10th, 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted. The resulting build-up of ash in the stratosphere altered weather patterns and led, in 1816, to a year without summer. Instead, there were June snowstorms, food shortages, epidemics, inventions, and the proliferation of new cults and religious revivals.



Hauntingly meaningful in today's climate crisis, Lebowitz's lyric essay charts the events and effects of that apocalyptic year. Weaving together history, mythology, and memoir, The Year of No Summer ruminates on weather, war, and our search for God and meaning in times of disaster.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771962209
• Artikelnr.: 52434225

Autorenporträt

Rachel Lebowitz, the author of Hannus (Pedlar Press, 2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prize) and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. She is also the author of Cottonopolis (Pedlar Press, 2013) and the co-author, with Zachariah Wells, of the children's picture book Anything But Hank! (Biblioasis, 2008, illustrated by Eric Orchard). She lives in Halifax, where she coordinates adult tutoring programs at her neighbourhood library.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Their Useless Wings 2. Mud 3. Tambora 4. The Last Frost Fair 5. The
Garden Of The Fugitives 6. Ragnarok 7. Daedalus 8. Medusa 9. The Children
Of Famine 10. Let Not The Lord 11. The Ice Maiden 12. The Laufmashine
Afterword: The Path Notes Acknowledgements