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

By Simon Winchester
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By Simon Winchester
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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 volcanic 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 natural disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical ...

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