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A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester

412 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling w...

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