The year of no summer : a reckoning / Rachel Lebowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lebowitz, Rachel, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian essays--21st century.

Canadian essays.

Weather--Social aspects.

Weather.

Tambora, Mount (Indonesia)--Eruption, 1815--Environmental aspects.

Tambora, Mount (Indonesia).

Weather--Effect of volcanic eruptions on.

Weather--Psychological aspects.

Genre:

Creative nonfiction.

Essays.

Physical Description:

157 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2018]

Summary:

"On April 10th, 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted. A build-up of ash in the stratosphere altered weather patterns and lead, in 1816, to a year without a summer. Instead, there were June snowstorms, food shortages, epidemics, inventions, and the proliferation of new cults and religious revivals. These linked lyrical essays chart the events and effects of the apocalyptic year following the eruption. Weaving history, fairytale, mythology, and memoir, Rachel Lebowitz ruminates on our interaction with weather and the natural world, motherhood, transformation, war, the human appetite for destruction, and our search for God and meaning in times of disaster."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Their useless wings

Mud

Tambora

The last frost fair

The garden of the fugitives

Ragnarok

Daedalus

Medusa

The children of famine

Let not the Lord

The ice maiden

The Laufmashine

Afterword: The path.

Notes:

Linked lyric essays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-157).

Other Format:

Lebowitz, Rachel, 1975-, author. Year of no summer.

ISBN:

9781771962193

1771962194

OCLC:

1033598325