And I thought:
I would give all these people's lives once more, to see something so beautiful again.
- Krakatau, a short story by the novelist Jim Shepard, 1996.

If only the clock could be turned back, the 36,417 lives lost during the powerful eruption of Mount Krakatoa on August 27, 1883, would be amazed to see how the volcano that rocked the world with its furious explosion has become an extraordinary natural stretch. The remaining part of t