Hubby got a book on Karatoa for Christmas from his parents, after this he hasn't put the book down.
Has he discovered that Krakatoa wasn't really East of Java after all?
link to book by David Keys on the 535 AD eruption of part of the Krakatoa system
(basis of the "Catastrophe" segment of PBS's "Secrets of The Dead"):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/5551143864/qid=1104530449/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-6540540-2444622
link to "Krakatoa" by Simon Winchester; about the famed eruption in 1883; details
the ONE-HUNDRED foot high tsunamis generated by the massive eruption:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066212855/qid=1104530556/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-6540540-2444622?v=glance&s=books