Krakatau: The Destruction and Reassembly of an Island Ecosystem

by Ian Thornton

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On August 27, 1883, the island of Krakatau in the Sunda Strait near Java erupted with a force nearly ten thousand times that of the hydrogen bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Two-thirds of the island disappeared. When the pall of ash lifted, the toll in human lives stood at nearly 37,000 and more than 160 villages had been wiped away without a trace. All plant and animal life on Krakatau was obliterated. Nine months after the explosion, a French...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674505689

ISBN13:9780674505681

Release Date:January 1996

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:346 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"

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