{"product_id":"tambora-robert-cain-9798278335184","title":"Tambora: The 1815 Eruption: The Year Without a Summer (1816 AD) How a Global Climate Disaster Caused Famine, Revolution, and the Birth of a New World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE EMPIRE WAS NOT ROME. IT WAS THE WEATHER.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year 1816 was the coldest summer in two millennia. Snow fell in New England in June. Lakes froze in Pennsylvania in July. Across Europe, endless rain brought famine, riots, and total despair. The world didn't know it, but civilization had been hijacked by a mountain on the other side of the planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the untold, minute-by-minute true story of the 1815 Mount Tambora volcanic eruption, and how its deadly fallout changed global history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside TAMBORA, you will discover the terrifying, interconnected fallout of the world's most powerful climate event: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTHE AMERICAN CRISIS: \u003c\/b\u003e How the \"Poverty Year\" destroyed American farming and fueled the mass westward migration that defined the 19th century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTHE EUROPEAN COLLAPSE: \u003c\/b\u003e The famines, typhus epidemics, and bread riots that brought war-weary nations to their knees and reshaped the continent's political future.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTHE BIRTH OF HORROR: \u003c\/b\u003e Why Mary Shelley was trapped inside on a freezing Swiss lake in July, and the terrifying gothic novel she wrote as a direct result of the volcanic gloom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTHE PLAGUE EFFECT: \u003c\/b\u003e How the collapse of the Indian monsoon triggered the birth of a *new, virulent cholera strain* that would kill millions worldwide in the decades to follow.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you want to understand the fragility of human civilization when confronted with climate change and global catastrophe, you must read the definitive account of 1816.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Cain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798278335184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07d","brand":"Robert Cain","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801196310783,"sku":"9798278335184","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tambora-robert-cain-9798278335184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}