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Flood: Nature and Culture (Earth)
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| #3287352 in Books | 2013-12-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.70 x6.00l,.95 | File type: PDF | 192 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Flooding as a theme in literature and art|By lyndonbrecht|This is a book in Reaktion Books "Earth" series. It is not simply a book on floods, but might best be described as a book that probes floods as an aspect of the human/ nature interface. It is excellently illustrated and rather well written. As the title implies, it is as much about human culture as it is about floods the||
“As Withington demonstrates, floods have always been with us: they killed more than 3 million in China in 1931. If inundation has been feared since the time of Noah, it is scarcely going to be reduced by the greenhouse effect or building on flood pl
From the flood that remade the earth in the Old Testament to the 1931 China floods that killed almost four million people, from the broken levees in New Orleans to the almost yearly rising waters of rivers like the Mississippi, floods have many causes: rain, melting ice, storms, tsunamis, failures of dams and levees, acts of vengeful gods. They have been used as deliberate acts of war to cause thousands of casualties. Flooding kills far more people than any other natural...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Flood: Nature and Culture (Earth) | John Withington. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
