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New York: Harpercollins. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. First US Edition. Hardcover. 416 pages. The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went…
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded August 27, 1883
by Winchester, Simon
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Soong Dynasty
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New York: Harper Perennial. Very Good. 1986. Trade Paperback. Minor edgewear at corners and head and tail of spine. Genealogical table.. 1.41 x 8.04 x 5.34 Inches. 560 pages .
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