Krakatau, 1883: The Volcanic Eruption and Its Effects

by Tom Simkin, Richard S. Fiske (Editor), Sarah Melcher (Editor)

Contents are divided Preface, Introduction, Narrative The Eyewitness Acounts, Verbeek's Mongraph of 1885, Scientific The Phenomena Interpreted, Bibliography and Index.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

464 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1980

Reviews

[Victor Sonkin]

This is the first comprehensive account of the first natural disaster to have occurred in the Information Age. It contains much of the firsthand account of Dutch geologist Verbeek, who was the only reliable scientific source on the events. It is academic, but useful.