A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- ISBN-10
- 0060571993
- ISBN-13
- 9780060571993
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 462
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-10-04
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- Author
- Simon Winchester
Description
An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of 1906, describing how it affected more than 200 miles of California, triggered a vast firestorm, and destroyed the gold-rush capital, in an account that reveals the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. 400,000 first printing.
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