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Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
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Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
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Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The
Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in
1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an
immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The
effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France.
Barometers in Bogota and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies
were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction
was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles
away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political
climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of
murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims, one
of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere.
Krakatoa gives us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating
and iconic event.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of
insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended
reading, and more.
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