Is Simon Winchester Inadvertently Creating Natural Disasters?

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  11.18.05 | 12:54 PM ET

You be the judge. He wrote “Krakatoa,” which involved a tsunami, and shortly thereafter, tsunamis struck South Asia. Then he wrote “A Crack in the Edge of the World” about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and a horrific quake hit Kashmir. Winchester himself told an amused audience in Menlo Park, California last month that his publicist is concerned: “She said, ‘Simon, have you ever thought people are going to start to say, whenever Simon Winchester writes a book, Stay indoors?’”

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1 Comment for Is Simon Winchester Inadvertently Creating Natural Disasters?

ashley bolongy 11.22.05 | 2:20 PM ET

this is a very good artical and it will help other people in need to know what krakatoa is !

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