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

Winchester, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006093736X ISBN 13: 9780060937362

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims, one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere. Krakatoa gives us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event.

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Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting the resulting immense tsunami that killed some 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 006093736X
• ISBN 13: 9780060937362
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
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