📱 eBook en inglés THE VOLCANO'S GHOST

"The Volcanos Ghost – How an invisible cloud birthed Frankenstein and famine" explores the global aftermath of the Mount Tambora eruption in 1815, which led to the "Year Without a Summer" in 1816. While the explosion happened in Indonesia, the ash cloud enveloped the world, causing snow in July in America and mass starvation in Europe. This book focuses on the cultural and social ripple effects of this climate catastrophe.
Historian Elias Black connects the dots between the gloomy weather and the birth of Gothic horror. He recounts how Mary Shelley, trapped indoors by the incessant rain in Geneva, wrote Frankenstein. The book also traces the migration of American farmers from New England to the Midwest, driven by frozen crops."The Volcanos Ghost" is a micro-history of how a geological event thousands of miles away can alter literature, demographics, and history. It is a reminder of humanitys vulnerability to the planets moods, showing how a darkened sky cast a shadow that we are still reading about today.