S24E07
The Year Without Summer
May 27, 200550m
Overview
Mount Tambora in eastern Indonesia unleashed the biggest volcanic blast ever in April 1815, a cataclysmic event that could have provoked a change in climate around the world. Thousands starved to death, lurid skies inspired the artist Turner and, out of the freakish cold, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was born. On opposite sides of the globe, two experts investigate.