Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations

The definitive account of how the world’s best-known climate event has made an indelible impact on history.

“Fagan makes high drama out of…the cracking of El Nino’s riddle.”—Washington Post

In the last three decades, El Niño has brought extreme drought, floods, and heat waves to every continent in recent years. Such effects are not new: climatologists know the El Niño and other climate anomalies have been disrupting weather patterns throughout history. But archaeologist Brian Fagan was among...