Tambora and the year without a summer : how a volcano plunged the world into crisis

Introduction : the Tambora crisis -- The year of the explosion : 1815 -- The year without a summer : 1816 -- The year of famine : 1817 -- The turbulent years that followed : 1818-1820 -- The long-range effects of the Tambora crisis -- Epilogue : from meaningless to meaningful crisis -- Abbreviations