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A Crack in the Edge of the World CD: America and the Great California Earthquake

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Publication Date
2005-10-04
ISBN
9780060823870
Publication Year
2005
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Book Title
Crack in the Edge of the World CD : America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Author
Simon Winchester
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Science, History
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Earth Sciences / Seismology & Volcanism, Earth Sciences / Geology, United States / General

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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 an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of other towns were overcome by an earthquake registering 8.25 on the Richter scale, resulting from a rupture in the San Andreas fault. Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25,000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century. Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities -- as well as his unique 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. A Crack in the Edge of the World is the definitive account of the San Francisco earthquake and a fascinating exploration of a legendary event that changed the way we look at the planet on which we live.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060823879
ISBN-13
9780060823870
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Crack in the Edge of the World CD : America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Author
Simon Winchester
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Earth Sciences / Seismology & Volcanism, Earth Sciences / Geology, United States / General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Science, History

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Item Length
5.8in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz

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Trade
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition

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  • Brilliant Historical Novel

    A great book that ties together the Gaia theory, Pentecostalists, active volcano in Yellowstone through the great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. I would also recommend the Audiobook that is narrated by the author.