Crack in the Edge of the World
The story of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 has been told and retold by dozens of writers. Few of these authors, though, have possessed the narrative gifts or the scientific credentials of Simon Winchester. The author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman is an Oxford...
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The story of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 has been told and retold by dozens of writers. Few of these authors, though, have possessed the narrative gifts or the scientific credentials of Simon Winchester. The author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman is an Oxford University–trained geologist. He renders the cataclysm not merely as a one-minute earthquake followed by three days of deadly raging fires but as a geological event of lasting significance.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781615599448 (1615599444)
Publish date: September 18th 2009
Publisher: Great Jones Books
Pages no: 462
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Reference,
Literature,
Science,
20th Century,
Geology,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
American History,
Research
An interesting book, though perhaps not as compelling as it might have been. Winchester seems to vacillate a bit between wanting to write a technical book on the geothermal workings of the planet and wanting instead to write a narrative history populated by individual people who witnessed or were af...
Simon Winchester has elevated the language of science to the language of poetry. His eloquence will hold the attention of and also captivate the reader with his brilliant explanation of the formation of the earth, the ocean floor, the plates that shift and slide to wreak havoc or as he might say cau...
What better book to read while on a trip to San Francisco than this one? A Crack in the Edge of the World tells the tale of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The fires that started just shortly after the earthquake exacerbated the devastation the earthquake created. It took three days for ...
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