Books

• Alfred, E. & Seward, A.C., The New Flora of the Volcanic Island of Krakatau, (reissued by Cambridge University Press
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   2009, ISBN 9781108004336)
• Rogier Verbeek
  Rogier Verbeek
  Rogier Diederik Marius Verbeek was a Dutch geologist and nature scientist.His journal Krakatau, which was edited in 1884 and 1885 by order of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, is his most known work. It deals with the eruption of the volcanic island Krakatoa in 1883 and brought...
  
  's initial report on the eruption ran in Nature
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   in May 1884. His book Krakatau was printed in 1885 in Dutch; a French translation(called Krakatau Atlas) is in two volumes.
• C. A. Backer; The Problem of Krakatao as Seen By a Botanist (1929). Examines the "Krakatau problem"- whether or not all life was destroyed by the 1883 eruption.
• Rupert Furneaux; Krakatoa (1964). This came out just a few years before the theory of plate techtonics was adopted.
• Tom Simkin & Richard S. Fiske, editors
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  , Krakatau 1883: The Volcanic Eruption and Its Effects was written for the centenary of the event and provides source material that had previously been unavailable in English, as well as the most thorough book on the subject to date.
• Ian Thornton; Krakatau: The Destruction and Reassembly of an Island Ecosystem (1996)
• David Keys
  David Keys (author)
  David Keys is archaeology correspondent for the London daily paper, The Independent, frequent television commentator on archaeological matters and author of the 1999 book Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World. He has visited over a thousand archaeological sites in sixty...
  
  ; Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World (1999).
• Simon Winchester
  Simon Winchester
  Simon Winchester, OBE , is a British-American author and journalist who resides mostly in the United States. Through his career at The Guardian, Winchester covered numerous significant events including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal...
  
  ; Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, 27 August 1883 explores the eruption of Krakatoa and the history of the region, the early spice
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   trade, the growth of colonial governments, explains the geology of volcanos and describes in detail the series of eruptions and tsunami
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  s and their effects around the globe.
• Mohammad Saleh; Syair Lampung Karam (Singapore, 1883). The only known account as poem written by local in Malay language
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Film

• Krakatoa
  Krakatoa (film)
  Krakatoa is a 1933 short documentary film produced by Joe Rock. It won the Academy Award in 1934 for Best Short Subject .Educational Pictures was the film distributor of the film....
  
  , a short (26 min) 1933 teaching film about the volcano that won the Academy Award
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   for Best Short Subject, Novelty for its producer Joe Rock
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  Joe Rock was an American movie producer, director, actor and screenwriter best remembered today for producing a series of 12 two reel comedies starring Stan Laurel in the 1920s....
  
  . This movie was notable for overwhelming the sound system
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  s of the cinemas
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   of the time. In Australia
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  , the distributors insisted on a power output of 10 watts RMS as a minimum for cinemas wishing to show the movie. This was then considered a large system, and forced many cinemas to upgrade. A revised version was made in 1966 for the Library of Congress
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Television

• "Ultimate Blast: Eruption at Krakatau" has been aired on Discovery Channel
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  , as part of the Moments in Time series.
• The 1883 eruption is reconstructed in the BBC Television
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   docudrama
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   Krakatoa: The Last Days, first broadcast in May 2006. It was broadcast in the U.S. as Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction on the Discovery Channel
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• The 2007 episode "Krakatoa's Revenge" of The History Channel
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  's disaster-themed documentary series Mega Disasters
  Mega Disasters
  Mega Disasters is an American documentary television series that originally aired from May 23, 2006 to July 2008 on The History Channel. Produced by Creative Differences, the program explores potential catastrophic threats to individual cities, countries, and the entire globe.The two...
  
  features the volcano's active history and imminent future.
• The 2009 episode "Krakatoa" of History's geology-based documentary series How the Earth Was Made
  How the Earth Was Made
  How the Earth Was Made is an American documentary television series produced by Pioneer Productions for the History channel. It began as a two-hour special exploring the geological history of Earth, airing on December 16, 2007. Focusing on different geologic features of the Earth, the series...
  
  also chronicles the geologic history of Krakatoa.