FA: Krakatoa by Simon Winchester, 1st U.S. Ed., 2003 TPB
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The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester 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 Bogot� 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.
HarperCollins, New York, 2003, Stated First Edition, 1st printing, 416
pages, 5 �" x 8 1/4", trade paperback, illustrated.
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