El Niño in History: Storming Through the Ages

César Caviedes

University Press of Florida, 2001 - Nature - 279 pages

Cesar Caviedes provides a comprehensive historical account of El Nino, the fascinating and disruptive weather phenomenon that has affected weather cycles all over the globe for thousands of years. Combining scientific accuracy with readable presentation, he brings together all existing information, references and clues about past El Nino occurrences and their impact on political, military, social, economic and environmental history. This sweeping demonstration of the impact of climatic fluctuation on human history should be fascinating to the scientific community as well as to the general public.

About the author

Cesar N. Caviedes, professor and past chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Florida, is the author or coauthor of nine books, including South America. A respected authority on El Nino for thirty years, he has published and lectured extensively on El Nino in North and South America, Europe, and Japan.

Bibliographic information

• Title: El Niño in History: Storming Through the Ages
• Author: César Caviedes
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2001
• ISBN: 0813020999, 9780813020990
• Length: 279 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Weather