# Catastrophe

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/david-keys/catastrophe/9780345444363

![Catastrophe](https://quivercdn.com/covers/ballantine-books/david-keys/catastrophe_978-03-4544-436-3.jpg?v=2026-06-22%2011%3A10%3A22)

- Book: [Catastrophe](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-keys/catastrophe) ([Catastrophe.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-keys/catastrophe.md))
- Authors: [David Keys](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-keys)
- Publisher: ballantine_books
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4544-436-3
- Published: 2000-10-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A. D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle...