A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World

Simon Winchester

412 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous slow-paced

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A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the wave of a ...

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