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Krakatoa : the day the world exploded : August 27,1883 / Simon Winchester

By:

Winchester, Simon

Publication details: New York : Perennial , c2003.Description: xvi, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780066212852

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DDC classification:

551.21 WIN

Summary: In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global repercussions in both historical and scientific contexts. The book includes maps and other illustrations.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	551.21 WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		028762

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Originally published: Great Britain : Viking, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-396) and index.

In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global repercussions in both historical and scientific contexts. The book includes maps and other illustrations.

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