TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - A crack in the edge of the world :America and the great California earthquake of 1906 /
DA  - 2005.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Winchester, Simon.
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - F869.S357
CN  - F869.S357
PB  - HarperCollins,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2005.
ID  - 295785
KW  - San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
KW  - Earthquakes
SN  - 0060571993 (alk. paper)
TI  - A crack in the edge of the world :America and the great California earthquake of 1906 /
ER  -