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Day The World Exploded - Krakatoa
The International Best Seller
Author: Simon WinchesterIllustrator:
| Retail Price: | $24.95 |
| Betabooks Price | $19.96 |
ISBN: 9780141005171
Format: Paperback
Published: May 2005
Published By: Penguin
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Published: May 2005
Published By: Penguin
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Simon 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 crackpot 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.