The archetypal natural disaster defined on the verge of the millennium. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader ...
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The archetypal natural disaster defined on the verge of the millennium. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.
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Very Good. 1st edition, 1st printing Henry Holt & Co. hardcover w/ DJ, 1998. Book is VG to NF, clean, tight, unmarked. DJ is VG, w/ very light shelfwear. Free delivery confirmation.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0805046968. Very slight edge wear to DJ. Sticker on DJ front.; A great looking book. Stated first Edition. Complete numberline. No names, no marks, no tears.; 1.16 x 9.58 x 6.51 Inches; 480 pages.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has faint rippling to the edges. Book is fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 480 p. Audience: General/trade. By the Pulitzer Prize-and Commonwealth Club Californiana Award-winning author of 'Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West' and 'Wallace Stegner and the American West'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.