Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded
By Simon Winchester 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 he unrecognized genius that 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 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.
Published Date: 03/06/2004
Format: PaperBack
ISBN: 9780141005171
Publisher: Penguin India
Rating:
price 13 $ 
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