Krakatoa (signed) The Day the World Exploded [hardcover]

Simon Winchester

ISBN 10: 0066212855 ISBN 13: 9780066212852

Editorial: Harper, 2003

Idioma: Ingl�s

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The Day the World Exploded. Signed by author Simon Winchester. [2003] first edition/seventh printing; Harper; very good jacketed hardcover. Signed by author title page. Illustrated. Re: Krakatoa, August 27, 1883. Pictorial hardcover with sharp corners and clean boards; half-jacket with crisp text and clean flaps. Light handling wear internally; unmarked other than signature. Overall, a very nice signed copy.

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T�tulo

Krakatoa (signed) The Day the World Exploded [hardcover]

Editor

Harper

Fecha de publicaci�n

2003

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0066212855

ISBN 13

9780066212852

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

1st Edition.

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Near Fine

Firmado

Signed by Author

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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 Bogot� and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims: one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere.

Simon Winchester's long experience in the world wandering as well as his knowledge of history and geology give us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event as he brings it telling back to life.

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Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed some 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.

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