The Storm (Summarized Edition)

THE STORM (Unabridged) is Defoe's chronicle of the Great Storm of 1703, a fusion of eyewitness reportage, civic inventory, and providential reflection that helped invent disaster journalism. Through letters he solicited and edited, he maps damage from parish roofs to naval squadrons, tabulating losses, quoting sailors and clergy, and weighing early meteorological conjecture against moral meaning. ...