2003
KRAKATOA
Simon Winchester
Chart History
dashed = off the list
10 weeks on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, peaking at #2
Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed some 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.
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Details
- ISBN-13
- 9780066212852
- ISBN-10
- 0066212855
- Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
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