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On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and windmills ablaze from... Read Full Overview

The Storm (1704) is a work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London... Read Full Overview

Though a System of Exhalation, Dilation, and Extension, things which the Ancients founded the Doctrine of Winds upon, be not my direct Business; yet it cannot but be needful to the present Design to Note, that the Difference in the Opinions of the Ancients, about the Nature and... Read Full Overview

The Storm: Or, A Collection Of The Most Remarkable Casualties And Disasters Which Happen'D In The Late Dreadful Tempest, Both By Sea And Land. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature... Read Full Overview

Preaching of Sermons is Speaking to a few of Mankind: Printing of Books is Talking to the whole World. The Parson Prescribes himself, and addresses to the particular Auditory with the Appellation of My Brethren; but he that Prints a Book, ought to Preface it with a Noverint Universi,... Read Full Overview

The Storm: Or, A Collection Of The Most Remarkable Casualties And Disasters Which Happen'D In The Late Dreadful Tempest, Both By Sea And Land. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature... Read Full Overview