Sam White

Cundill History Prize FinalistLongman–History Today Prize FinalistWinner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize "Meticulous environmental-historical detective work."-Times Literary Supplement When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climatic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and...