Simon Winchester
Krakatoa
The Day the World Exploded
Paperback EN 2004 9780141005171Levertijd ongeveer 11 werkdagen
Samenvatting
'Bracingly apocalyptic stuff: atmospheric, chock-full of information and with a constantly escalating sense of pace and tension' Sunday Telegraph
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 Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology. In breathtaking detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt to this day.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780141005171
Taal:EN
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:448
Uitgever:Penguin Books Ltd
Thema:
1FMN Indonesië
3ML 18e eeuw, ca. 1700 tot ca. 1799
3MN 19e eeuw, ca. 1800 tot ca. 1899
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