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Also by Simon Winchester:

Land, January 2022
Paperback / e-Book
The Men Who United The States, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Atlantic, November 2010
Hardcover
The Man Who Loved China, May 2009
Paperback
The Man Who Loved China, May 2008
Hardcover
A Crack in the Edge of the World, October 2005
Hardcover
Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883, July 2005
Paperback (reprint)

KRAKATOA: THE DAY THE WORLD EXPLODED: AUGUST 27, 1883
By: Simon Winchester

Harper Perennial
July 2005
On Sale: July 1, 2005
464 pages
ISBN: 0060838590
EAN: 9780060838591
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction History

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 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. 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.

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