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Apr 10, 2017 - 9:41 AM
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Grecchus
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My post has gone all wrong!!
I was asking CD-CHD if his/her tie-in book was the same paperback version I have from all those years ago, not time to read however. Mine is the New English Library/4 Square publication by Michael Avallone.
In the family library, we had this book by Rupert Funeaux, which is now long since lost. I did read it once, but don't recall the factual account. It always struck me how big an event the eruption was because 36,000 people were killed in the disaster.
The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 killed 92,000, even bigger than Krakatoa. What do we get? Punky seepage in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles in 1997 (VOLCANO, starring Tommy Lee Jones).
The Boxing Day 2004 Tsunami took 170,000. In one lifetime, the usurpation of history from a browned book by contemporary events was a wake up call. Other than geophysical history, human history before the 20th century is almost an irrelevance.
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