The Attacking Ocean Quotes

“We know of major floods from at least three violent storm surges that hit the German and Dutch coasts in about 1200, 1219, and 1287.14 The surge of January 16, 1219, the feast day of St. Marcellus, killed at least thirty-six thousand people. By bizarre coincidence, one of the greatest and best known medieval surges, known as the Grote Mandrenke (the Great Killing of Men) of 1362, struck on the same day as the 1219 cataclysm:”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

“A cubic meter of hazelnuts is sufficient to provide 10 percent of the annual energy needs of a mixed population of twenty people.”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

“A minimum of twenty-five thousand people, certainly many more, perished in the Great Drowning. Storm surges were even more frequent between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, such as the apocalyptic St.”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels