TY - BOOK AU - Winchester,Simon TI - A crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906 SN - 0060571993 (alk. paper) AV - F869.S357 W56 2005 U1 - 979.4/61051 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - HarperCollins KW - San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 KW - Earthquakes KW - California KW - San Francisco KW - History KW - 20th century KW - San Francisco (Calif.) N1 - Maps on lining papers; Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-433) and index N2 - An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of 1906, describing how it affected more than two hundred miles of California, triggered a vast firestorm, and destroyed the gold-rush capital ER -