Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life along the San Andreas Fault - Softcover

Fradkin, Philip L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520221192 ISBN 13: 9780520221192

Verlag: University of California Press, 1999

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Only minor shelf wear. Otherwise this is a good clean copy, its contents are intact and unsoiled.

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"A fascinating and at times riveting yarn about one of the state's--and the earth's--most powerful and mysterious forces. . . . [Fradkin] puts California's seismic adventure in context by tracing the history, mythology and literature of earthquakes worldwide, peppering his account with quake references by Shakespeare, Voltaire and the Yurok Indians of the Northwest."--Jim Doyle, "San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

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Environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin offers a vivid history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the seismic scar that bisects the Golden State's spectacular scenery. The author includes dramatic stories of legendary earthquakes elsewhere: in New York, New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, Europe, and the Far East. Combining human and natural dramas, he places the reader at the epicenter of the most invisible, unpredictable, and feared of the earth's violent phenomena. On the eve of the millennium, as cyberspace crackles with apocalyptic visions, Fradkin reaches beyond the earthshaking moment to examine the mythology, culture, social implications, politics, and science of earthquakes.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0520221192
• ISBN 13: 9780520221192
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352