Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Subtitle: August 27, 1883
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: March 30, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780060937362
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."