Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World by Gillen D'Arcy Wood Read Free Book Online Page A

readers at Princeton University Press. The guidance of all the above was vital for a humanist entering into the sometimes difficult terrains (and atmospheres) of the physical sciences.
    The mostly unglamorous detective work required to bring the global Tambora story to light involved tracking down a vast range of nineteenth-century sources across multiple continents. This could not have been done without the magnificent library at the University of Illinois at my disposal and a host of expert staff. I wish to thank, in particular, Shuyong Jiang of the Asian Library, Adam Doskey in the Rare Book Room, and the staff of the Interlibrary Loan Office who dealtwith my intermittent hailstorm of requests with great patience and efficiency. For research tips on “The Panic of 1819,” richly layered with moral support, my sincere thanks to David Brady in Springfield, Illinois.
    As a recovery mission in early nineteenth-century global history, the writing of this book involved significant transnational challenges, of which China was the greatest for me as a nonspecialist. I take the opportunity here to thank the librarians at Yunnan University for their hospitality and aid during my research trip in 2011, Professor Rong Guangqi of Wuhan University for his first draft translations of Li Yuyang’s (now) unforgettable poetry, and a cohort of graduate students in Asian studies at Illinois who assisted at various stages of the Yunnan famine research project. For the Bengali side of the story, gratitude goes to my colleague Anustup Basu for his introduction to cholera folklore. And last, but by no means least, for the transformative experience of climbing Mount Tambora itself, I wish to thank my guide, Ma-cho, the crew from Lombok, and my Sumbawan hosts at various stations on the journey.
    Final thanks and love go to my wife, Nancy, and the children I left at home on my various Tamboran wanderings (Sumbawa, India, China, the Arctic …). The quality of souvenirs I brought home for Lucas and Clara was spotty at best, but this book of many fathers will, I hope, compensate in time for the absence and other deficiencies of the one.

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
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    MOUNT TAMBORA, VOLCANISM, AND CLIMATE (WORKS CONSULTED BUT NOT CITED)
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