A crack in the edge of the world

America and the great California earthquake of 1906

462 pages

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2005 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-057199-3
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I loved Winchester's The Professor and the Madman. This book was good, but not as good at that. It was interesting enough, but Winchester pissed me right off near the end, during his description of his road trip up to the Denali Fault. Fatphobic jerk actually published how he was miffed that he didn't get to soak in a hot springs because it was full of fat people. I hope his editors catch his next foot-eatingly embarrassing moments of over-sharing his personal predjudices.

Subjects

  • San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
  • Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
  • San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century