Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Author Simon Winchester
Language English
Publisher Penguin
Publication date
2004
Pages 432
ISBN 0-141-00517-3

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester that covers the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

Summary

Winchester examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France, and the sound of island's destruction—per Winchester's book—could be heard in Australia and India.[1]

Critical reception

In The New York Times, critic Janet Maslin called Krakatoa "a trove of wonderfully arcane information." Maslin added, "The author has been able to attach so many tentacles to a single event – the spectacular and catastrophic eruption of the title volcano – that there seems to be nowhere he can't go."[2] The book was a New York Times bestseller.[3]

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