In 1909, as Alexander Leacraft idles in Washington, engineering works across Panama twist the Gulf Stream away from Europe. Scotland is evicted by the invading cold, then the whole of Britain must be abandoned, and the novel follows the terror and the vast spectacle of a nation’s evacuation as seen by an American observer.
An early climate-catastrophe novel by an American Museum of Natural History curator; its racial language is that of 1908. Download the free EPUB.