[PDF Download] Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 By Simon Winchester
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
By : Simon Winchester
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Book Synopsis :
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano ? Krakatoa. 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 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
Book Detail :
Author : Simon Winchester
Pages : 464 pages
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0060838590
ISBN-13 : 9780060838591
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