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Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester



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5 references to sandick in this book:

1. on Page 249:
"... Could it have been one of the "four waves" supposedly seen that morning by an engineer named R A. van Sandick? He was a passenger aboard the Gouverneur-Generaal Loudon-the steamer that, it will be remembered, was unable to dock at any ..."
2. on Page 254:
"... struck. There were two eyewitnesses : Both the anonymous European in Telok Betong and the Loudon passenger N. H. van Sandick saw her lifted up on high by one of the 7:45 A.M. waves, then saw the mooring springs part one ..."
3. on Page 332:
"... that culminated in the 1888 rebellion, was by chance one of the eruption's eyewitnesses. He was called R A. van Sandick. A technical-school teacher from Deventer in central Holland, he had been hired by the colonial government for his knowledge of ..."
4. from Index:
"... Lascar, 306 Laurasia, 72-73, 72 lava flows, 241-42, 310 on Anak Krakatoa, 363, 376-78 Leed en Lief in Banten (van Sandick), 332-33 Lemuria, 52 life, posteruption, 347-66 biological equilibrium in, 355 first stirrings of 350-52, 354, 361-62 Krakatoa problem and, 357-60 ..."
5. from Index:
"... St Telemachus (Tennyson), 284 Salwatty Island, 262 Samarang, 156, 159, 243 Samoa, 295-96 Sampson, Captain, 234 San Andreas Fault, 110-11 Sandick, N. M. van, 254-55 Sandick, R. A. van, 249, 332 San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, 111 Sangay, 306 Santorini, 243 ..."


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