Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/8PC34b8 The Great Fire of London In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666 By: Neil Hanson Publisher: Wiley (Turner Publishing) Print ISBN: 9780471218227, 0471218227 eText ISBN: 9780470450703, 0470450703 Edition: 1st Pages: 320 Copyright year: 2002 Format: EPUB Available from $ 19.99 USD SKU 9780470450703 Acclaim for The Great Fire of London Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill. —Times Literary Supplement The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson’s prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research. —The Daily Telegraph (London) He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account. —The Sunday Times (London) The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain. —Soho Independent A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery. —The Brisbane News A rollicking good yarn. —The Age (Melbourne)
