{"product_id":"the-great-fire-of-london-in-that-apocalyptic-year-1666-9780471218227","title":"The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcclaim for The Great Fire of London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The brilliance of its narrative chapters . . . a marvelous eye for evocative detail. Hanson's prose is animated by the ferocious energy of the fire and seems to be guided by its inexorable movement. He creates the literary equivalent of the special effects in a disaster movie. . . . A rich mixture of imagination and research.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He writes with knowledge and verve. As if making a television documentary on a natural disaster, he includes a gripping technical chapter on the mechanism and chemistry of combustion. This works brilliantly. . . . The book gains immeasurably from the author's eye for detail and from his understanding of the beliefs and prejudices of the day. . . . Informative and lively account.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The best depiction of the Great Fire seen to date. . . . He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth-century Britain.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eSoho Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A riveting book for those who like their history with a bit of mystery.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Brisbane News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A rollicking good yarn.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e (Melbourne)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Blends high-class original research with a narrative style that mimics fiction. . . . Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNew Zealand Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Neil Hanson's descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eCamden New Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels-narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eSunday Star Times\u003c\/i\u003e (New Zealand)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Hanson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trade Paper Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.38w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780471218227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/22\/2002 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/18\/2002 pg. 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNEIL HANSON is the author of \"\"The Custom of the Sea\"\" (Wiley) and thirty other books under his own name and a variety of pen names. He lives in West Yorkshire, England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trade Paper Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40937593372787,"sku":"9.78047E+12","price":36.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_48968a95-8332-45ae-8117-ccdb68c75943.jpg?v=1693317190","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-great-fire-of-london-in-that-apocalyptic-year-1666-9780471218227","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}