Simon Winchester: "Krakatoa" (Harper Collins)

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Simon Winchester: "Krakatoa" (Harper Collins)

Writer, historian, and geologist Simon Winchester reconstructs the events of August 27, 1883, the day an explosive volcanic eruption off the coast of Java destroyed the island of Krakatoa. Winchester examines how this cataclysmic event...

Writer, historian, and geologist Simon Winchester reconstructs the events of August 27, 1883, the day an explosive volcanic eruption off the coast of Java destroyed the island of Krakatoa. Winchester examines how this cataclysmic event still affects the world today.

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Simon Winchester

writer, historian, and geologist

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