Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Simon Winchester

432 pages paperback 2003

18 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Simon Winchester s brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Mor...

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