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

Shrady, Nicholas

ISBN 10: 0670018511 / ISBN 13: 9780670018512

Published by Viking Adult, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670018511
• ISBN 13: 9780670018512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

An account of the cataclysmic mid-eighteenth-century earthquake also discusses how its related tidal waves, fires, and aftershocks rocked the western world, prompting intellectual debates about the natural world and God's place in human affairs as theorized by such Enlightenment figures as Voltaire, Alexander Pope, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 30,000 first printing.

About the Author

Nicholas Shrady is a journalist whose articles have appeared in Architectural Digest, Travel & Leisure, Forbes, The New York Times Book Review, and Town & Country. His previous books include Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa and Sacred Roads: Adventures from the Pilgrimage Trail.