Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded
by Winchester, Simon
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0066212855
- ISBN 13
- 9780066212852
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U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hard Cover, : As New Condition. Krakatoa Was The Volcanic Island West Of Java That Blew Itself To Smithereens On August 27 1883. After Several Months Of Coughing, This Terminal Cataclysmic Hack Was So Huge That It Sent An Atmospheric Shockwave Seven Times Around The Earth. The Bang Was Heard 2,968 Miles Away. It Raised Tsunamis That Wreaked Havoc Along Indonesian Coastlines, Killing Nearly 36,000 People. The Effects Were Felt Around The World, And For The First Time The World Was Equipped To Record The Rumbles And Atmospheric Anomalies, The Unusual Tides And Unearthly Sunsets, And To Tie These Global Phenomena To The Single Cause That Was Krakatoa's Demise. Winchester Handles The Physical Consequences Of The Eruption With The Sure-Footedness Of A Former Geologist. But He Is Less Convincing On Other Matters, Including The Ecological Processes That Were Set In Motion On The Shattered Remnants Of The Old Volcano And The New One That Is Rising From The Sea In Its Place. The Body Of Literature On The Colonisation Of These Sterile Lands By Different Plants And Animals Is Vast, But Winchester Does Little More Than Skate Over Its Surface. And He Will Incur The Wrath Of Biologists By Drawing Parallels Between The Sequence Of Colonisation And The "Great Chain Of Being", That Canonical Image Of The Supposed Hierarchical Development Of Life Through Time Based On The Notion Of Progressive Evolution (You Know How It Goes: Fish-Amphibian-Reptile-Mammal-Homo Sapiens, With Each Link In The Chain Being More Evolutionarily "Advanced" Than The Previous One, Whatever "Advanced" Might Mean). Unfortunately, The Sequence Of Animals And Plants Arriving On The Islands Is Wrong, And The Notion Of The "Great Chain Of Being" Is Nonsense In Any Case.
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- Title
- Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded
- Author
- Winchester, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0066212855
- ISBN 13
- 9780066212852
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 432
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- English books;
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