From the Great Fire of London to the Challenger explosion, earthquakes, crashes, floods, and accidents have been major turning points throughout history. In 100 Disasters That Shaped World History, young readers will be introduced to some of the most notorious disasters known to mankind, discovering how these fateful events unfolded-and how they changed the world as we know it.
100 disasters sounds like a lot, doesn't it? But as we learn quite early on in this book, it's only scraping the surface of the disasters that have actually struck our planet. The book only lists disasters that are fully verified, and mostly sticks to ones that lead to some kind of change in the world.
All the famous ones are here; Titanic, Aberfan, Hurricane Katrina. There were others I had sort of heard of, and plenty I had no idea about. I'm a bit nervous to get on a plane now, but I'm sure that will pass - after all, statistically, it's still the safest way to travel.
Although most of these disasters lead to a change of some kind, several didn't (or at least it isn't recorded here) but everything was interesting to read. This would be a great starting point for a school project, and we all know school kids are ghouls for this kind of thing anyway. The layout is great (did cause a few problems for my ARC, but I was able to work around them) and the illustrations really helped to picture what was going on.
This was a very interesting read and I can't wait to see what the rest of the series will be like.
100 Disasters that Shaped World History publishes on the 4th November, 2022. I received a free copy and am giving an honest opinion.
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