Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

August 27, 1883

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

August 27, 1883

  • 3.80 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 24 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

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Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Pages
432

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
July 5, 2005, Harper Perennial
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
March 30, 2004, Harper Perennial
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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First Sentence

"Though we think first of Java as an eponym for coffee (or, to some today, a computer language), it is in fact the trading of aromatic tropical spices on which the fortunes of the great island's colonizers and Western discoverers were first founded."

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.6 pounds

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Open Library
OL9248058M
Internet Archive
krakatoadaywo00winc
ISBN 10
0066212855
ISBN 13
9780066212852
Library Thing
14564
Goodreads
972389

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