“It proved a wet, ungenial summer,” the future Mary Shelley wrote, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.” To entertain themselves, they wrote ghost stories. Mary Shelley’s would become Frankenstein.” — Greg Breining Copy Share Image
“The Deccan Traps volcanoes spilled as much as a half million cubic miles of basalt over an area equal to half of present-day India.… — Greg Breining Copy Share Image
“The effects could be sufficiently severe to threaten the fabric of civilisation.” — Greg Breining Copy Share Image
“It proved a wet, ungenial summer,” the future Mary Shelley wrote, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.” To entertain… — Greg Breining Copy Share Image
