Maps

Below is the whole earth. The one dot on it is Tambora.

April 1815.

The map below is the road to Lake Geneva.

The summer of 1816.

Nobody at the lake that summer had heard of Tambora, and nobody knew that the cold rain keeping them indoors had come from the far side of the world.

A bench, not a story. Tap London or Lake Geneva for a line of text; tap the name Tambora in the last sentence for the map in a window.