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Nicholas Day, illustrated by Yas Imamura
A World Without Summer tells how the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora darkened skies, disrupted climate and society around the globe, and helped inspire Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein during the Year Without a Summer.
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