A Story of Civilization in 50 Disasters – From the Minoan Volcano to Climate Change: 0 (History in 50) - Softcover

Eaton, Gale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884487482 ISBN 13: 9780884487487

Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

Starred Youth Services Book Review

*2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner*

The earth shakes and cracks open. Volcanoes erupt. Continents freeze, bake, and flood. Droughts parch the land. Wildfires and hundred-year storms consume anything in their paths. Invisible clouds of disease and pestilence probe for victims. Tidal waves sweep ashore from the vast sea. The natural world is a dangerous place, but one species has evolved a unique defense against the hazards: civilization.

About this title

About the Authors

Gale Eaton has spent a lifetime with books for children and young adults, first as a children’s librarian at the Boston Public Library and the Berkshire Athenaeum, and later as a professor of children’s literature at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is the author of four other books.

Phillip Hoose is the widely acclaimed author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles including the National Book Award - and Newbery Honor - winning book Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club. A graduate of Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Hoose was for 37 years a staff member of The Nature Conservancy, dedicated to preserving the plants, animals, and natural communities of the Earth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884487482
• ISBN 13: 9780884487487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288