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Rated: 8 times. Average rating 4.88
Description
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.
Books by Simon Winchester:
- The River at the Center of the World (2004)
- A Crack in the Edge of the World (2005)
- Krakatoa (2004)
- The Meaning of Everything (2004)
- The Professor and the Madman (1999)
- The Map That Changed the World (2001)
- The Men Who United the States (2013)
- The Best American Travel Writing 2009 (2009)
