Winchester offers a riveting, minute-by-minute account of the most destructive volcanic eruption in modern times, and along the way also a host of fascinating detail about the history of Indonesia.
Forget Mt. St. Helens and Vesuvius: the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 hurled 11 cubic miles of rock and ash into the sky, sent forth a tsunami 120 feet high, and annihilated life within a 25-mile radius. Author Winchester sets the stage for this disaster by describing the unique geology of this section of the Pacific Rim’s “Ring of Fire,” its ecology, the creation first of a Portuguese, and then a Dutch colonial empire. And then the signals that went unheeded . . . and then the disaster.
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