Krakatoa Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Simon Winchester
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
242

Krakatoa by Simon Winchester Book Summary

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 Bogotá 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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Book Name Krakatoa
Genre Geology
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 5.51 MB

Krakatoa (Simon Winchester) Book Reviews 2024

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Mr.. Great overview of the global effects of the eruption. Quick read and I am a slow reader.

Fascinating look at one of nature’s disasters. Many details on the events leading up to the volcanic explosion and how it affected the global climate.

More dull than it needed to be. The author took an exciting subject and made it flat and lifeless. Very disappointing.

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Summary of Krakatoa by Simon Winchester

The Krakatoa book written by Simon Winchester was published on 05 February 2013, Tuesday in the Geology category. A total of 242 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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