# The Great Flood

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- Authors: [Edward Platt](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-platt)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-06-25

## Description

How we visualise climate catastrophe tends toward the epic, the exotic . . . Platt instead locates its effects in the everyday: the flooding experienced by England’s picture postcard towns and occasionally decrepit coastal settlements . . . The Great Flood makes the global local in the same way that the climate emergency does. Platt’s writing combines sharp reportage with a poet’s eye for a striking image that vividly captures the otherworldly, waterlogged landscapes he travels through . . . “When it comes to climate change, we are all to blame.”

## Editions

### The Great Flood

- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-03-3042-028-0
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2020-06-25
- Language: en_GB