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Krakatoa
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Krakatoa (edit title/settings)

The day the world exploded: August 27, 1883

by Simon Winchester (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • “Merely to peer down into the seas and wonder what might be going on deep below would give most passersby the shudders.”

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Though we think first of Java as an eponym for coffee (or, to some today, a computer language), it is in fact the trading of aromatic tropical spices on which the fortunes of the great island colonizers and western discoverers were first found.

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List of Illustrations and Maps

Prelude

1. "An Island with a Pointed Mountain"
2. The Crocodile in the Canal
3. Close Encounters on the Wallace Line
4. The Moments When the Mountain Moved
5. The Unchanging of the Gates of Hell
6. A League from the Last of the Sun
7. The Curious Case of the Terrified Elephant
8. The Paroxysm, the Flood, and the Crack of Doom
9. Rebellion of a Ruined People
10. The Rising of the Son

Epilogue: The Place the World Exploded

Recommendations for (and, in One Case, Against) Further Reading and Viewing

Acknowledgments, Erkenningen, Terima Kasih

Index

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  1. Simon Winchester (Author)

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Country: USA
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ISBN: 0-06-621285-5
Page Count: 401

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