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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 - Simon Winchester

Name: A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Author: Simon Winchester

Story location: San Francisco, California

A geological and social history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the forces that shaped both the disaster and the city.

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