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Krakatoa The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 Brooke Lea Foster Marvel assembled some of itsBy: Simon Winchester Published by Harper Collins, 2005 07 05 Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogot and Washington, D. C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in