KRAKATOA – the day the world exploded. By Simon Winchester. Penguin Books ISBN 0-141-00517-3 ( £7.99 UK)
I really enjoyed this book, once I got used to Winchesters style of writing, which might be described as slightly old fashioned. I would have been happy with an account of the 1883 Krakatau eruption, but this book gave much more.
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