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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Krakatoa The Day the World Exploded
Author: Simon Winchester
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event which has only very recently become properly understood, the eruption changed the world in mo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670914302
ISBN-10: 0670914304
Publication Date: 12/1/2003
Pages: 432
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Publisher: Viking/Allen Lane
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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