A Crack in the Edge of the World

The Great American Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2005
Viking (Verlag)
978-0-670-91493-7 (ISBN)

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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 a millennia. In 1906 the dreams of the city came crashing down.

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: what happened in this new, seemingly blessed city on the 18th April 1906. As he vividly portrays the lives of the people who suffered and survived the devastation he also tells a universal story: the hubris of man as he ignores the warnings of nature and how we respond and try to understand the world around us. Compelling, moving and enlightening, Simon Winchester brings to light the world beneath our feet and through the story of this one terrifying event one hundred years ago, begins to make sense of our world now.

Simon Winchester was born and educated in England, has lived in Africa, Ireland, India and China, and now lives in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. Having reported from almost everywhere during more than thirty years as a foreign correspondent, he now contributes to a variety of American and British magazines and newspapers, and is the author of many highly acclaimed works of non-fiction. His most recent books have been the international bestsellers The Map That Changed the World and Krakatoa.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.10.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Erdbeben • San Francisco, Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-670-91493-2 / 0670914932
ISBN-13	978-0-670-91493-7 / 9780670914937
Zustand	Neuware