The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000...
Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remains of what...