Shana Kushner Gadarian is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School in Syracuse University, and with Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas Pepinsky, the author of
Pandemic Politics: How COVID-19 Revealed the Depths of American Polarization, which is under contract with Princeton University Press.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson is associate professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author, with Princeton University Press, of The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (2021).
Gillen D’Arcy Wood is professor of environmental humanities and English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he serves as associate director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment. He is the author of
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Two Northwest explorers helped us understand the Earth’s poles
A pair of recent books shed light on the lives of James Cook and Charles Wilkes By Knute Berger, Crosscut
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Abstract
This essay gives a brief overview of the events of 26-27 August 1883, when the volcanic island of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded; it generated tsunamis which killed over 36,000 people, was heard 3,000 miles away, and produced measurable changes in sea level and air pressure across the world. The essay then discusses the findings of the Royal Society’s Report on Krakatoa, and the reports in the periodical press of lurid sunsets resulting from Krakatoa’s dust moving through the atmosphere. It closes by examining literature inspired by Krakatoa, including a letter by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poem by Alfred Tennyson, and novels by R. M. Ballantyne and M. P. Shiel.