Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, the Year Without a Summer

Seven Seas Press, 1983. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x0. Seven Seas Press [Published Date: 1983]. Hardcover, 177 pp. First edition. Good+ in good+ dust jacket. Cream paper over boards with brown cloth and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Light spotting to fore-edge of text block. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. No remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From front jacket flap] Internationally renowned Woods Hole scientist Henry Stommel, together with his spouse Elizabeth Stommel, present a topical investigation into the relationship between volcanos and weather. This is the history of the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 - the most explosive volcano in the last 10,000 years - and the extraordinary events that occurred one year later in New England and Northern Europe, including harvest failure, famine, social dislocation, and disease. The authors' conclusions on the relationship between volcanos and weather are presented in a specially designed chapter, analyzing the economic, social, and climatic consequences of Mount Tambora, which encourages readers to draw their own correlations between volcano activity and weather. VOLCANO WEATHER is fascinating reading. It illuminates the imponderable effects of climatic changes on cultural history. It prepares readers for the forthcoming climatic irregularities resulting from the massive eruption of El Chichon in Mexico in 1982. In addition, the Stommels present surprising observations on the combined effects of volcano dust and air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels.