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This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

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Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist


The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the 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 ...