TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winchester,Simon
TI  - Krakatoa : the day the world exploded ; 27 August 1883
SN  - 0141005173
U1  - 363.349509598209034 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Eruption
KW  - gnd
KW  - Krakatau
KW  - Krakatoa (Indonesia)
KW  - Eruption, 1883
KW  - Geschichte 1883
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography; Originally published: London: Viking, 2003
N2  - 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 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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