Rudolf Adriaan van Sandick
(1855-1933)
An eyewitness accounts
Rudolf Adriaan van Sandick was 27 years of age and had graduated from the Polytechnical School in Delft only six years earlier, when he sailed past Krakatoa and witnessed the largest explosion in recorded history at short range. Apparently his report, “In het Rijk van Vulcaan” (In the Realm of the Volcano), is still being considered of great value in the antiquarian trade. Fortunately the book can also be read online at www.vansandick.com/vulcaan.
The book displays his political engagement. He writes objectively but with compassion, speaks of admiration for “the natives” in the hours of despair, and is concerned about spiritual leaders who seize the calamity to preach violence on the islands . . .
Most pages though are dedicated to the scientific interest, in the footsteps of the geologist Verbeek, exploring the idea of continents floating on the tide of fluid magma deep below. The theory of tectonic plates would eventually be proposed in 1912, by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener although his arguments still required further scientific thought.
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Ask a question or Order this book Browse our books Search our books | SANDICK, R.A. VAN : In het rijk van Vulcaan - De uitbarsting van Krakatoa en haar gevolgen. Thieme, Zutphen, Netherlands, 1890. 1 ed. 195 p. illustr. 8vo. Dutch. Prachtig relaas van de Krakatoa uitbartsting met ooggetuige verslagen van de eruptie , de vloedgolven en asregens en hun effect. Met een kaart van de Straat Soenda. Index. Bibliogr. Ornam. & verguld linnen. Uit de Norder collectie met zijn signatuur. Fraai exempl. Detailed personal accounts of the Krakatoa eruption of 1883 and its consequences. Index. Map of Str. Sunda. Ornam. & gilded cloth. Nice copy with owner's signature. EUR 72.08 = appr. US$ 86.50 Book number: S1669-8899 | |||
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