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Type: documentary

Status: disliked

Author: Simon Winchester

Tags: history non-fiction

Description: After reading Simon Winchester's super cool book The Professor and The Madman I jumpedAfter reading Simon Winchester's super cool book The Professor and The Madman I jumped on this book. Unfortunately, that was a huge mistake. There was enough interesting information there for a great book that was approximately one half to one third the length of this book.

It's about the enormous eruption (better described as an annihilation) of Krakatoa in the late 1800's. The island was never a population center so it wouldn't have mattered much if not for the tsunami it created and the dust it threw into the atmosphere world wide. But oh, what a disaster those things caused... It's unfortunate that this book is so long and boring that it is a similar disaster....

2005-09-12