A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906 / Simon Winchester.
2005
F869.S357 W56 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906 / Simon Winchester.
Author
Winchester, Simon.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0060571993 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : HarperCollins, 2005.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 462 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
9780060571993
Call Number
F869.S357 W56 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
979.4/61051
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.