The Third Horseman - Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century

Documents the early fourteenth-century period of rain, cold, disease, and warfare that created the worst famine in European history, tracing the epidemics and lost harvests that cost nearly eighty percent of the region's livestock and six million human lives.

Product details

• Authors: William Rosen
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.05.2014, delayed
• EAN: 9780670025893
• ISBN: 978-0-670-02589-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History