Cover of Krakatoa

Book 2003

Krakatoa

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
2003
  • Volcanoes
  • History
  • Natural disasters
  • Social aspects
  • Indonesia, history

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 colonizers and western discoverers were first found.