The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 – How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself
Autor Philip L. Fradkinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2006
"The masterful Philip Fradkin once again plays Sherlock Holmes to Western environmental history. None of the standard histories of the 1906 disaster are likely to survive the exemplary jolt of his remarkable new research."--Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780520248205
ISBN-10: 0520248201
Pagini: 435
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: University of California Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0520248201
Pagini: 435
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: University of California Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
This is the third book in Philip Fradkin's trilogy on earthquakes. The first two are Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault (California, 1999) and Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay (California, 2001). Fradkin, who has lived adjacent to the San Andreas Fault for thirty years, is also the author of the acclaimed A River No More (California, 1996) and The Seven States of California (California, 1995), as well as many other books. He shared a Pulitzer Prize while at the Los Angeles Times.