In "Krakatoa," the science includes cameos by Alfred Russel Wallace and Alfred Wegener, whose theories presaged modern plate tectonics and geophysics, which Krakatoa itself proved.

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded By Simon Winchester Viking, 445pp, $29.95 The Earth is the planetary system's equivalent of waterfront property. Its precise distance from the sun ...

Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded [Click the title to buy this book] by Simon Winchester HarperCollins 432 pages, $25.95 On August 27, 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa, located between ...

For historical perspective on the Icelandic volcano eruption, Jeffrey Brown talks to Simon Winchester, author of "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883," about the massive 19th ...

Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded by geologist-turned-journalist Simon Winchester is a nonfiction account of the 1883 explosion of the volcanic island Krakatoa, which triggered an epic tsunami ...

This is just one of the many contextual elements Simon Winchester delves into in Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, his riveting account of the gigantic Krakatoa eruption.

Krakatoa, we are told, was not just the most enormous explosion, but a moment when the world changed: when people, "in a strangely febrile and delicately unbalanced condition", were suddenly ...