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Paris Under Water: How The City Of Light Survived The Great Flood Of 1910 (2010)

by Jeffrey H. Jackson(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0230617069 (ISBN13: 9780230617063)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Trade

review 1: This book was well-written and extremely informative, but also extremely dry. The author went for a tone more academic than personal, and while I appreciate his dedication to facts (and also understand that there were not many existing accounts from ordinary Parisians of this time) I could have used a little more narrative flow. However, this is still an excellent piece of work, and a great addition to my disaster shelf!
review 2: Reading this book hard on the heels of the destruction wrought by Hurrican Sandy was very illuminating. The "great flood" of Paris (shortly before the outbreak of WWI) had many reprecussions for that city and the nation. Even that long ago there was talk about how the destruction of the environment could have led to the disaster of ... more1910. A well researched, well written study of an important event in Paris' history. less

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