Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Subtitle: August 27, 1883
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: April 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780066212852
Subjects: Indonesia; Volcanoes; History - General History; Eruption, 1883; Natural Disasters; History: World; Krakatoa (Indonesia); Asia - Southeast Asia; Earthquakes & Volcanoes; History / General; Reading Group Guide; Essays; 19th century; History
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's colonizers and Western discoverers were first founded.