01812nam a22002417a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001800102041000900120050001400129100003800143245009700181260003800278300004300316520104900359942001501408946000901423999001901432952011901451BJBSDDR20260515111350.0ta260515s2003    nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780066212852  a0066212855  bspa cBJBSDDR  aeng   bW759 20031 aWinchester, Simon, d1944-91094510aKrakatoa : bthe Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 / cSimon Winchester 1796 reseñas  aNew York : bHarperCollins,c2003  a416 pages : billustrations ; c24 cm   aThe legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa-the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely thpysical horros of an event that has only very recently been properaly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round the planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogota and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Mose significant of all-in view of today's new political climate-the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims: one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywere. j  2lccn0cBK  icmc   c127106d127106  00102lcc40708APTaBJBbBJBcAPTd2026-05-15l0oW759 2003p00000199805r2026-05-15 11:14:11t1w2026-05-15yBK