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.

Softcover. English. Penguin. 2006. ISBN: 9780141016344. 464 pp. Good. Book No: 56071