Krakatoa
Publisher: Viking
Published: May 6, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780670911264
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Social impact of disasters; Vulcanology & seismology; Indonesia; c 1800 to c 1900; Science/Mathematics
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.