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This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason,Used
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Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book AwardA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistThe captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquakethe most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugals coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbons destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the citys shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared.Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western worldincluding descriptions of the worlds first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment.
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