The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century by William Rosen

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

William Rosen

302 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in northern Europe until August. Next came the coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland a...

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