A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester

512 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous slow-paced

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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned ...

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