Book Review: In 'Nature's Mutiny,' Philipp Blom strives to show how the Little Ice Age 'transformed the West and shaped the present'
In the deep winter of 1620, a person could walk from Asia to Europe across the ice of the frozen Bosporus strait. In the still harsher winter of 1657, the Danish Sound froze sufficiently for the Swedish army to march from Jutland to Copenhagen. In 1683, thick ice on London’s River Thames bore coaches, sled races, shopping stalls and a few brothels.
These extraordinary deep freezes occurred during the “Little Ice Age,” a global climate anomaly experienced from roughly 1400 to 1850. At its height, the Little Ice Age cooled...
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