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Title: Good Historical Account of the Global Village Event
Review: Simon Winchester has entered the disaster field with his newest pop history entry and has created a book, Krakatoa, that succeeds, in terms of entertainment, beyond his previous very well-done works. The astonishing fact about this book is that the most interesting aspect is the first couple hundred pages of history on both the colonization of the East Indies and the development of the study of the earth. That he can render the history of geology so fascinating should be no suprise to readers of his last book, The Map That Changed the World, but that he can almost suceed in rendering it more gripping than the account of the explosion itself is a wonder. Which is not to say the explosion of Krakatoa is not incredibly nail-biting because it most certainly is. The story flags a little in the politics of the last chapters recounting the aftermath of the explosion, but only a little, as the author seems on less sure ground. An exciting read.
