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El Niño in History: Storming Through the Ages
ISBN: 9780813020990
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / University Press of Florida
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Catastrofes naturales.; Climatologia.; El Niño.;

Cesar N. Caviedes's El Ni?o in History: Storming Through the Ages will attract the attention of armchair meteorologists and oceanographers everywhere, but particularly in those regions, such as Florida and California, where human life is most blatantly affected by weather. Drawing on his own and others' research, Caviedes (South America), professor and former chair of the University of Florida's Department of Geography, links current findings and speculation to 19th-century shipwrecks off Africa, successful European exploration of the Incan empire in the 16th century, WWI-era droughts in Australia, recent famines in countries in or adjacent to the Sahel and catastrophic floods in China in the 1400's. The book takes in a broader current than Mike Davis's recent, grimly magisterial Late Victorian Holocausts: El Ni?o Famines and the Making of the Third World. Tables and illus. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved