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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.),   ISBN:9780060838591
     
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Binding: Paperback
Release Date: July 2005
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Ed. Publ. 2005
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ISBN-13: 9780060838591
ISBN-10: 0060838590
Author: Simon Winchester
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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It may seem a stretch to connect a volcanic eruption with civil and religious unrest in Indonesia today, but Simon Winchester makes a compelling case. Krakatoa tells the frightening tale of the biggest volcanic eruption in history using a blend of gentle geology and narrative history. Krakatoa erupted at a time when technologies like the telegraph were becoming commonplace and Asian trade routes were being expanded by northern European companies. This bustling colonial backdrop provides an effective canvas for the suspense leading up to August 27th, 1883, when the nearby island of Krakatoa would violently vaporize. Winchester describes the eruption through the eyes of its survivors, and readers will be as horrified and mesmerized as eyewitnesses were as the death toll reached nearly 40,000 (almost all of whom died from tsunamis generated by the unimaginably strong shock waves of the eruption). Ships were thrown miles inshore, endless rains of hot ash engulfed those towns not drowned by 100 foot waves, and vast rafts of pumice clogged the hot sea. The explosion was heard thousands of miles away, and the eruption's shock wave traveled around the world seven times. But the book's biggest surprise is not the riveting catalog of the volcano's effects; rather, it is Winchester's contention that the Dutch abandonment of their Indonesian colonies after the disaster left local survivors to seek comfort in radical Islam, setting the stage for a volatile future for the region. --Therese Littleton

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A View into a Terrifying Experience
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Simon Winchester brings his expertise at combining science and history into a readable narrative to the late 1800's explosion of Krakatoa. You start to really feel like you are there and have some understanding of a world with slow communication and limited ability to understand events as they occur. I often watch the news now and think we don't really "get" what is happening but reading Krakatoa I see how far we have come. The book is a little slow to get going, but the actual narrative of the events around the eruption and its aftermath are enthralling.

an excellent geological as well as historical & sociological study
Customer Rating:  Score = 4 Score = 4 Score = 4 Score = 4 Score = 4

This excellent geological, as well as historical & socialogical study is a must-read in order to grasp the full extent of interaction between human society and Nature. It's also a heads-up regarding the realities of life for anyone living along an active tectonic border.

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Customer Rating:  Score = 5 Score = 5 Score = 5 Score = 5 Score = 5

The book is more informative than the shows that I have seen on TV. There is a lot that has been explained. Thank you.


Karen Kay Ullom

Krakatoa the whole story
Customer Rating:  Score = 4 Score = 4 Score = 4 Score = 4 Score = 4

If you ever wanted to know the real story if the Greatest Volcanic Eruption in modern times, this is it. Not only the eruption itself but a lot of side stories about what happened to some of the people involved. This story is filled with interesting facts and the exact order of what happened and when.

Fantastic reading !
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This is my seccond book from Simon Winchester ( the other was The map that changed the World) .
Winchester is a great writer giving you a broad and at the same time concise perspective of the subject he covers.
In this case one wonders how can you write a thick book on just the subject of a volcanic explosion (?)... Well he reffers to the
social life of Dutch collonies in the East, and so many other facts, from the laying of underwater cables for telegrapgh, to the evolution
of life even after the island of Krakatoa exploded.

I highly recomend this book.

This review was written from Madrid, Spain. Sep.16-2009
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