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基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Books Ltd
·页码：256 页码
·出版日：2006年
·ISBN：9780141016313
·条码：9780141016313
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 32开
内容简介
Publisher's Weekly
'With fabulous style, wit and grace . . . bestselling writer Winchester has crafted a magnificent testament to the power of planet earth'--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Independent on Sunday
'Captivatingly readable . . . written with a passion and intelligence that make it compelling'--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Daily Telegraph
‘Gripping first-hand accounts, a vivid account of the city, fascinating stuff’--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Time Out
‘Engrossing, fascinating. Winchester combines a gift for storytelling and a passion for geology to compelling effect’--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Sunday Telegraph
‘Wide-ranging, gripping, fascinatingly described’--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Literary Review
‘Fascinating reading, lucid, revealing. Stands on its own as an informative and enjoyable book’--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Herald
‘The scientific, geological, human and political stories behind the San Francisco earthquake. Read it and shiver’--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Book Description
Just before dawn on 18th April 1906 and for little short of a minute the earth very briefly shrugged. For the inhabitants of the western part of North America the effect was immediate and horrifying: a massive earthquake roared through the city of San Francisco, tearing through the main thoroughfare of the town in huge undulating waves, as the entire surface of the earth, and everything that stood upon it, seemed to lift up and roll in from the ocean. Houses crashed to the ground, people were shaken from their beds, chimneys fell in on themselves and within moments great fires burst into life across the city and raged for three terrifying days.Simon Winchester’s breathtaking new book follows the story of the city that was built on the dreams of the American gold rush and was destroyed in less than a minute. Threaded through the extraordinary tales of human endeavour, the stories of the scientists who made sense of an uncharted land, the men and women who then settled and transformed the American West, the appalling scale of the destruction and of the shameful insurance scams, is the elemental story of the earth itself: as Simon Winchester dives deep beneath the surface of our world he shows us just why the earth moves as it does and on occasion shatters itself with such devastating results. With his inimitable voice and by way of a narrative rich with anecdote and enlightening detail, Winchester reveals the world beneath our feet and, in telling what is in essence a universal story of man’s confrontation with a most pitiless nature, helps to make sense of our world now.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
About the Author
Simon Winchester was born and educated in England, has lived in Africa, Ireland, India and China, and now lives in New York city and the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Having reported from almost everywhere during more than thirty years as a foreign correspondent, he now contributes to a variety of American and British magazines and newspapers and is the author of many highly acclaimed works of non-fiction. His most recent books have been the three international bestsellers, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, The Map that Changed the World and Krakatoa.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Excerpted fromA Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great Earthquake of 1906by Simon Winchester. Copyright © 2005. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
I walked back downhill, enchanted and fascinated by all I had seen. And then there came to me the one word that, more than any other, has stayed with me and has haunted me since that morning – a word the relevance of which was only compounded by what I knew, by what all of us knew, of San Francisco’s history.As I folded my tent, cleaned up my campsite and packed the car for the last thirty-odd miles back down the hillside and on to the freeway that would eventually take me over that enormous series of iron bridges and into the city itself, one word kept running around and around in my mind. This fragile, enchanting-looking city also looked, more than anything else, most terribly and fatally VULNERABLE.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
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