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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Henrik Svensen |
ISBN: | 9781861894335 1861894333 |
OCLC Number: | 475793844 |
Notes: | Originaltitel: Enden er nær |
Description: | 238 sider : illustrations |
Responsibility: | Henrik Svensen ; english translation by John Irons |
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Publisher Synopsis
Faced with its catalogue of plagues, fires, earthquakes and tsunamis, one can only hope that The End is Nigh proves an inaccurate title. But Henrik Svensen's fascinating book is more than a catalogue of catastrophes. When crops failed in Sweden a 1,000 years ago, the solution, tempting to us republicans, was a human sacrifice - of the king. The Independent Not so much "The end is nigh", more "The end has been nigh many times". Henrik Svensen tackles the topic of how natural disasters shape human society. Understandably, the interplay between religion and science is a prominent theme ... The book's strength is its wealth of examples, some as recent as hurricane Katrina ... The most gripping parts are when geologist Svensen relates his own experience finding spontaneous subterranean fires in Mali. New Scientist Read more...

