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A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906 / Simon Winchester.
LIBRA - Special F869.S357 W56 2005b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winchester, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
- Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.
- Earthquakes.
- History.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- California.
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 419 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Advance reader's edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [2005]
- Summary:
- Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows the effect it had on the rest of 20th-century California and American history.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Chronicle: a year of living dangerously
- The temporary city
- Chronicle: such almost modern times
- From plate to shining plate
- Chronicle: the state of the golden state
- How the west was made
- The mischief maker
- Chronicle: city of mint and smoke
- Overture: the night before dark
- The savage interruption
- Ripples on the surface of the pond
- Perspective: ice and fire
- Appendix: on getting an earthquake's measure.
- Notes:
- "First edition"--Title page verso.
- "Uncorrected proofs"--Page 4 of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-419).
- ISBN:
- 0060836288
- 9780060836283
- 0060571993
- 9780060571993
- OCLC:
- 62618074
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