This gulf of fire : the destruction of Lisbon or apocalypse in the age of science and reason
"On All Saints Day of 1755, the tremors from a magnitude 8.5 earthquake swept furiously from its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean toward the Iberian Peninsula. Nowhere was it felt more than in Lisbon, then the thriving capital of a great global empire. In a few minutes most of Lisbon was destroy...
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Alfred A. Knopf
2015
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