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Nicholas Shrady (Author)
The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full five days and left Lisbon thoroughly annihilated. Nicholas Shrady’s unique account of this first modern disaster and its aftereffects successfully articulates the outcome of the earthquake-the eighteenth-century equivalent of a mass media frenzy giving rise to a host of other fascinating developments, such as disaster preparedness, landmark social reform, urban planning, and the birth of seismology.
Author Biography
Nicholas Shrady is the author of
Sacred Roads: Adventures from the Pilgrimage Trail. His articles have appeared in
Architectural Digest,
The New York Times Book Review,
Travel & Leisure,
Forbes, and
Town & Country.
Number of Pages: 256Dimensions: 0.68 x 8 x 5.42 INPublication Date: March 31, 2009
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