A crack in the edge of the world, America and the great California earthquake of 1906, Simon Winchester
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Label
A crack in the edge of the world, America and the great California earthquake of 1906, Simon Winchester
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A crack in the edge of the world
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
58546171
Responsibility statement
Simon Winchester
Sub title
America and the great California earthquake of 1906
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
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
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Creator
Genre
Subject
- 1900-1999
- History
- Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- California
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (California : 1906)
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
- Erdbeben
- California + San Francisco
- Earthquakes -- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
- Earthquakes
- San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906
- Geschichte 1906
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject14
- 1900-1999
- History
- Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- California
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (California : 1906)
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
- Erdbeben
- California + San Francisco
- Earthquakes -- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
- Earthquakes
- San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906
- Geschichte 1906
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
- Content1
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