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| #3204504 in eBooks | 2013-12-11 | 2013-12-11 | File type: PDF||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 Noah’s Biblical deluge to the China floods of 1931 that killed more than 3 million people; and from the broken levees in New Orleans to submerged streets and homes all over Britain, floods have always been an unwelcome companion of humanity. They have many causes: rain, melting ice, storms, tsunamis and the failures of dams and dikes. They have been used as deliberate acts of war causing thousands of casualties and have often been seen as punishments visited...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Flood: Nature and Culture (Earth) | John Withington.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
