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Earthquake's narrative through a geological lens.
If you're fascinated by how natural disasters shape history, Simon Winchester's "A Crack in the Edge of the World" is a gripping read. Winchester is a master storyteller who goes beyond just recounting the events of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He delves into the geological mysteries that underpin such calamities and ties the quake to broader historical and cultural impacts. This book is a profound blend of science and narrative, making the past resonate with the present.
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906
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ISBN: 9780060571993
Authors:
Simon Winchester
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date of Publication: 2005-10-04
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.79
(rated by 6942 readers)
Description
Simon Winchester vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, and fashions an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.Winchester applies his inimitable storytelling abilities (as well as his understanding of geology) to this extraordinary event, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake in the first place. But his achievement is even greater: he 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 the flyleaf: "This signed edition of A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester has been specially bound by the publisher."] The dust jacket of this edition folds out into a large poster-sized facsimile of the front page of a San Francisco newspaper published on April 19, 1906.
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