The End of the World

by Lewis H. Lapham (Editor)

Other authorsSimon Schama (Introduction), Peter T. Struck (Editor)
Hardcover, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

909

Collection

Publication

Thomas Dunne Books (1998), Edition: Thomas Dunne Books, 297 pages

Description

A spectacular, fully illustrated anthology of first-person accounts of disaster - from Thucydides to CNN, from Pompeii to the Holocaust.

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LibraryThing member jwhenderson
This collection of essays documents historic events that approached apocaplyptic proportions. From the Roman disaster at Pompei to the twentieth century the events described seemed to be the end of the world to contemporary observers. In retrospect they provide a record of the way humans have
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survived over the ages.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

297 p.; 9.75 inches

ISBN

0312192649 / 9780312192648

Local notes

FB First-person accounts of disasters, from 3000 BC to modern times.
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