Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
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‘Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension’ Sunday TelegraphSimon Winchester’s brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology. In breathtaking detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt to this day.

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Weight 0.308 kg
Dimensions 2.5 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

448
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Year Published

2004-6-3
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0141005173
About The Author

Simon Winchester has had an award-winning 20 year career as Guardian correspondent. He lives in New York and is the Asia-Pacific Editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC. He has written numerous books. The River at the Centre of the World (Viking 1997/Penguin 1998) has been shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.

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