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California Fault, Searching for the Spirit of a State Along the San Andreas
by Thurston Clarke
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 1997
- PAPER
- 417 PAGES
- OUT OF PRINT
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More than just a discussion of earthquakes, this is a good natured portrait of California, from a man who traveled along the San Andreas fault in search of what defines the Golden State. What he finds is an eccentric landscape of people living on land that could crack open at any minute.
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A Crack in the Edge of the World, America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
by Simon Winchester
- HISTORY
- 2006
- PAPER
- 448 PAGES
Geologist, master storyteller, traveler and journalist, Simon Winchester succeeds again in this fast-paced, utterly fascinating account of the great 1906 earthquake that devastated San Francisco. (CAL193, $15.99)
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