The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 by Nicholas Shrady

The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

Nicholas Shrady

240 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is...

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