A crack in the edge of the world : the great American earthquake of 1906 / Simon Winchester.

By:

Winchester, Simon

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Camberwell, Vic. : Viking, 2005.Description: xxxvi, 412 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:

0670914932 (pbk.)

Other title:

American earthquake of 1906

DDC classification:

979.4/61/051 22

Review: "Just before dawn on 18 April 1906 and for little short of a minute the earth very briefly shrugged. for the inhabitants of the western part of north America the effect was immediate and horrifying: a massive earthquake roared through the city of San Francisco, tearing through the main thoroughfare of the town in huge undulating waves as the entire surface of the earth and everything that stood upon it seemed to lift up and roll in from the ocean. Houses crashed to the ground, people were shaken from their beds, chimneys fell in on themselves and within moments great fires burst into life across the city and raged for three terrifying days. This book follows the story of the city that was built on the dreams of the American gold rush and was destroyed in less than a minute. Threaded through the extraordinary tales of human endeavour, the stories of the scientists who made sense of an uncharted land, the men and women who then settled and transformed the American West, the appalling scale of the destruction, and of the shameful insurance scams, is the elemental story of the earth itself." -- BOOK JACKET.

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Includes index.

Originally published by Viking, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [401]-402.

"Just before dawn on 18 April 1906 and for little short of a minute the earth very briefly shrugged. for the inhabitants of the western part of north America the effect was immediate and horrifying: a massive earthquake roared through the city of San Francisco, tearing through the main thoroughfare of the town in huge undulating waves as the entire surface of the earth and everything that stood upon it seemed to lift up and roll in from the ocean. Houses crashed to the ground, people were shaken from their beds, chimneys fell in on themselves and within moments great fires burst into life across the city and raged for three terrifying days. This book follows the story of the city that was built on the dreams of the American gold rush and was destroyed in less than a minute. Threaded through the extraordinary tales of human endeavour, the stories of the scientists who made sense of an uncharted land, the men and women who then settled and transformed the American West, the appalling scale of the destruction, and of the shameful insurance scams, is the elemental story of the earth itself." -- BOOK JACKET.

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