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Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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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