Krakatoa
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-083859-1
- EAN: 9780060838591
- Produktnummer: 19332833
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.7 cm x D3.0 cm 347 g
- Gewicht: 347
Über den Autor
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts.
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