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It also triggered a 'nuclear' (without the radiation) winter and led to crop failures and mass starvation. The resultant social upheaval in Indonesia led to a Muslim take over. Simon Winchester wrote an extremely readable account of this in 'Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded.' I highly recommend the book and the author.

Started reading this book about Karkatoa and I LOVE IT!

Absolutely fascinating and I love the way it’s written. Exactly the style of writing I love. If I wrote a book, i’d write it like this.

I'm a climate change skeptic; I should probably mention that off the bat.

But ecological disturbances (droughts, epidemics, etc.) often trigger mass migrations, which in turn trigger wars when people migrate somewhere where there are already people.

Interestingly, there's a fair amount of evidence that they can also trigger fundamentalist movements. In Krakatoa the author talks about how Islamic fundamentalism took off in Indonesia right after the famous volcano. A lot of people's lives had been completely destroyed and they were looking for something hard to hold onto.

This might not be in the same vein, but check out Krakatoa by Simon Winchester. It's a book on the legendary volcano explosion in the late 19th century that temporarily disrupted global weather pattern in that year.

Lots of great info here.

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060838590/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_346hCbKADNS51

Strongly recommended book if you want to learn more about Krakatoa.

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

There is a wonderful book about this called (appropriately) Krakatoa by Simon Winchester full of interesting facts and anecdotes about this remarkable event.

I enjoyed Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester.

Also, and this one isn't strictly geo, but it's awesome, The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean. Basically a history of the periodic table. And it's really funny too.

Simon Winchester is really good. I enjoyed Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman.