Author: Simon Winchester
Title: Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded, 27 August 1883
Description: Viking 2003 Paperback, 448pp. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster — was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round the planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá 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. some foxing, (ISBN: 9780670914289). Good.

Keywords: History, Non-Fiction, Scientific9780670914289 9780670914289


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