Audiobooks *Non-fiction Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History Relief Measures

Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

by Allen H. GODBEY (1864 - 1948)

Relief Measures

Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment. A large proportion of the calamities reported from day to day are directly due to the haste, greed, and heedlessness of man himself, and need no comment. But there is a large class of disasters, due solely to meteorological or geological conditions, which surpass all others in magnitude and appalling destruction. In such cases men insist on prating about “mysterious visitations,” as though these occurrences were subject to the dominion of no law. To an examination of such is this book devoted." From the preface.

Listen next episodes of Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History:
Earthquakes , Earthquakes in The United States and England , Earthquakes in Tropical America , European Earthquakes , Famine and Pestilence , Great Eruptions of Vesuvius , Other Great Eruptions Part 1 , Other Great Eruptions Part 2 , Prediction and Prevention , The Reign of Law , The Volcano