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Book Reviews of The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age How Climate Made History 1300-1850
Author: Brian Fagan
ISBN-13: 9780465022717
ISBN-10: 0465022715
Publication Date: 12/2000
Pages: 256
Rating:
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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hardtack avatar reviewed The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 on + 2850 more book reviews
I was primarily interested in how the changes in the weather affected national policies, diets, population movements, and other events. And I'm happy to say I discovered a lot of what I was looking for, including some interesting trivia.

For example, "...between 1695 and 1728, inhabitants of the Orkeny Islands off northern Scotland were startled to see an Inuit in his kayak paddling off their coasts." This was because cold had forced many of the animals hunted by these people further south as the northern seas had frozen over.