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• 4.0 out of 5 stars from Luis Mansilla -- An hurricane in Britain .. strange but real : It was the evening of 26 November 1703 when a still powerful hurricane that crossed all the atlantic was about to hit Britain. Life was as usual althought climate had been very peculiar days before, with strong winds from the south. It was the time when the cathedral of St Paul was being reconstructed and it was the time of the very well known fiction writer, Daniel Defoe. In this, one of his first works, he provide a serie of accounts of the event from several sources, several stories of how this dreadful storm hit people's towns, houses and ships. 'Tis interesting to note that chimneys were the major killers in houses and that lots of trees were also lost, especially elms. People didn't blame climate change, too much C02 in the air or anything else, but God's fury. ( Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2008 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from JerseyTomato -- Interesting, added value makes this public domain material worth buying : . I haven't been able to plow through all of Defoe's version (it can be rather repetitive), but I wouldn't mind finding out more about the storm itself from a modern perspective. ( Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2010 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from William Utley -- Faithful Copy : Faithful copy of 300-year old book. ( Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2021 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Theodore Verde -- Five Stars : Loved it - especially if you are into the Enlightenment era or Defoe ( Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2017 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from DH Dixon -- obscured by fiction : Until now Defoe's The Storm hasn't been in print as a single volume since the mid 19th century. The reason being that since the mid 19th century the public has preferred to see Defoe as a fictionist like Dickens, which has degraded the value of his Journal of the Plague Year and consigned The Storm to oblivion. These works form a pair, both being about national disasters of historic significance. The difference in style is that The Storm consists of Defoe's own observations and research, and a collection of eyewitness accounts from around the nation that Defoe advertised for, while A Journal of the Plague Year has the eyewitness account and Defoe's research blended together into one common narrative. No other journalist has ever done that (perhaps this is why the audacity of Jack Shephard's escapes appealed to him). But if you read the Plague Year as fiction it would be like trying to read The Storm as fiction. ( Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2006 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Thorgrim -- Superb account of the Great Storm : The great storm of 1703 was far greater than anything we have recently experienced. Defoe's description reads well and is very thorough as he collected eye witness accounts from all over the country. His accounts of the preceding days of unusually heavy rains and floods reads like the newpapers of today. Then came the terrible winds with roof tiles flying horizontally through the air and smashing windows of houses opposite. Steeples came down, hundreds of barns and houses were demolished. Whole fleets of ships were sunk off the east coast and in the Thames estuary. Admiral Cloudsley Shovel tried to enter harbour at Harwich and was blown to Norway! ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2014 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from meridiangirl -- Living through the greatest storm on record in Britain : A factual account of the great storm of 1703. might not be everyone's cup of tea but it must rate highly from a historical and journalistic point of view. The author set out to capture eyewitness accounts of what happened in the winter of 1702/3. The south of England was most affected by the storm which devastated buildings and caused a significant loss (amounting to billions in modern money) to the country. Some of the escapes are remarkable and the maritime episodes are particularly interesting. There can be no doubt of the veracity of the reporters and the only reason I have not awarded five stars is that the language and spelling of the era might prove an obstacle to some readers. Not exactly a happy read but extremely interesting nevertheless. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2015 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from mrs m -- good account of the great 1703 storm : good account of the 1703 storm from up and down the country gives a general look from local vicars and others not many personal accounts from the public but general accounts like how many chimneys blown down barns etc thought it would have mentioned a bit more about the eddystone lighthouse etc good read worth getting ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2020 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from Mr. K. L. Longmore -- Puts our current weather in perspective! : Defoe's book is perhaps the start of modern style first-hand journalism. It rescued him from bankruptcy and made his name as a serious author (he had been imprisoned for writing anti-government pamphlets previously). My only criticism is that it is in places hard to read the archaic English, and the explanation of nthe English is in a separate glossary. But it is poignant and moving, and the description of HMS Association (later Sir Cloudesley Shovell's flagship, wrecked off the Scillies in 1707 due to an error in navigation) being blown across the North Sea, dismasted and helpless, can only be described as distressing. A very worthwhile book to read. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2014 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from geo -- Stormy weather : Interesting book given the current alarmism about the climate. The storm in 1703 was one of the worst to hit Britain, and much worse than any storm in the past 30 years. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2020 )

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