Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Subtitle: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: July 5, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780060838591
First sentence: Though we think first of Java as an eponym for coffee (or, to some today, a computer language), it is in fact the trading of aromatic tropical spices on which the fortunes of the great island colonizers and western discoverers were first found.