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100	1		_aWinchester, Simon, _d1944- _910945
245	1	0	_aKrakatoa : _bthe Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 / _cSimon Winchester 1796 reseñas
260			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins, _c2003
300			_a416 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
520			_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
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