BLOWN TO BITS OR THE LONELY MAN OF RAKATA
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BLOWN TO BITS OR THE LONELY MAN OF RAKATA (ebook)

R. M. BALLANTYNE

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Written for a juvenile audience when it appeared in 1889 but it is a detailed account of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano and its effects on nearby Java, with a human interest story added to keep it from being dry. (Goodreads)

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