A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Great American Earthquake of 1906
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 wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon themselves. Simon Winchester's breathtaking story delves deep beneath the surface of the earth and explains to us why the world moves as it does; and breaks apart with such devastating results. At the same time he never lets us forget the human story:…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-190578-5
- EAN: 9780141905785
- Produktnummer: 17830855
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'656 KB
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Simon Winchester
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