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Book Synopsis The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 by : Philip L. Fradkin
Download or read book The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."
Book Synopsis The Great Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco, 1906 by : John Castillo Kennedy
Download or read book The Great Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco, 1906 written by John Castillo Kennedy and published by New York : William Morrow. This book was released on 1963 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Of 1906 by : Louise Chipley Slavicek
Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Of 1906 written by Louise Chipley Slavicek and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the devastating earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906 and the resulting fires that destroyed a large section of the city.
Download or read book Disaster! written by Dan Kurzman and published by Harper Entertainment. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, describing the horrible natural disaster and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble, killing ten thousand people.
Book Synopsis The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906 by : Eric Saul
Download or read book The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906 written by Eric Saul and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs show conditions in the California city before, during, and after the great disaster of 1906.
Book Synopsis Disaster by the Bay by : Brinkley Howard
Download or read book Disaster by the Bay written by Brinkley Howard and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2016-04-17 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known. Find out what happened and how the city was repaired in this fascinating book.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Great Disaster by : Wilbur Gleason Zeigler
Download or read book The Story of the Great Disaster written by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler and published by The Paragon Agency. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906 by : Grove Karl Gilbert
Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906 written by Grove Karl Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The San Francisco Earthquake by : Gordon Thomas
Download or read book The San Francisco Earthquake written by Gordon Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gripping, can’t-put-it-down” chronicle, drawing on eyewitness reports and historical documents, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Enola Gay (Los Angeles Herald Examiner). It happened at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. To this day, it remains one of the worst natural disasters in American history—and this definitive book brings the full story to vivid life. Using previously unpublished documents from insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross, as well as the stories of those who were there, The San Francisco Earthquake exposes villains and heroes; shows how the political powers tried to conceal the amount of damage caused by the earthquake; reveals how efforts to contain the fire actually spread it instead; and tells how the military executed people without trial. It also features personal stories of people who experienced it firsthand, including the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, the banker Amadeo Giannini, the writer-adventurer Jack London, the temperamental star John Barrymore, and the thousands of less famous in their struggle for survival. From the authors of The Day the Bubble Burst, The San Francisco Earthquake is an important look at how the city has handled catastrophe in the past—and how it may handle it in the future.
Book Synopsis After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006 by : Mark Klett
Download or read book After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006 written by Mark Klett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays accompany this collection of photos of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire, juxtaposed with photos of the city today.
Book Synopsis The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire by : Charles Morris
Download or read book The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire written by Charles Morris and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-nine original full-page illustrations enhance these firsthand narratives, which trace the chain of events from the earthquake and fire to the plight of the homeless and the colossal task of rebuilding.
Book Synopsis The Longest Minute by : Matthew J. Davenport
Download or read book The Longest Minute written by Matthew J. Davenport and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.
Book Synopsis A History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco by : Frank W. Aitken
Download or read book A History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco written by Frank W. Aitken and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 by : Deborah Hopkinson
Download or read book Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.” Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San Francisco. Nick’s on his own for the first time, with nowhere to turn. Then he meets jaunty, talkative Pat Patterson, owner of the most beautiful store–and the friendliest golden dog–in all the city. And for the first time in months, Nick feels safe. Safe in San Francisco. But the year is 1906, the month is April, and early one morning the walls begin to shake. The floor begins to buckle. And the earth opens up. A devastating earthquake and then raging firestorms ravage the city, and Nick is right in the middle of it all. But for a young boy who’s got few ties and nothing to lose, what’s the right choice: escape to safety or stay–at deadly risk–to help others? From acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson comes a suspenseful and carefully researched novel of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire and of one boy’s heroic fight to survive it.
Book Synopsis Disaster by the Bay by : Harry Paul Jeffers
Download or read book Disaster by the Bay written by Harry Paul Jeffers and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful city -- eighth largest in the country -- reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake and then consumed by flames... In this vivid, fast-paced chronicle of what has been called the worst peacetime disaster to ever befall America, veteran journalist and author H. Paul Jeffers provides a gripping account of the nightmarish days in April 1906 when earthquake and fire devastated San Francisco. Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness material, Jeffers follows a variety of individuals as they come to terms with an unthinkable event. Celebrities like Enrico Caruso and John Barrymore; the civil and military authorities who tried to bring order out of the chaos; merchants who struggled heroically to save their shops and goods from the ruins and the flames; the suddenly homeless ordinary men and women who composed messages on scraps of paper and sticks of wood (all of which, incredibly, the postal service actually delivered) to tell of their survival: from all these and many other perspectives Jeffers creates a riveting mosaic of catastrophe and its aftermath. With the one-hundredth anniversary of the quake approaching, this skillful and engrossing narrative will be of keen interest to readers from west coast to east. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Earthquake, Fire and Epidemic by : Richard Hansen
Download or read book Earthquake, Fire and Epidemic written by Richard Hansen and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost five decades of exhaustive research by Gladys Hansen, Official Archivist Emeritus of San Francisco, makes Earthquake, Fire & Epidemic the definitive discourse on one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history. With coauthors Richard Hansen and Dr. William Blaisdell, M.D., Gladys Hansen offers a comprehensive account of the events leading up to, during, and following the April 1906 Earthquake and Fire that devastated San Francisco. The book includes narratives depicting the firefighters, military personnel, and first responders whose extraordinary efforts helped establish order out of chaos. Of particular significance, the authors discredit the deceitful efforts by San Francisco's political and business establishment who, to protect the commercial viability of the city, minimized the death toll and diminished the true magnitude of destruction. Earthquake, Fire & Epidemic offers new documentation and provides insight into the incomprehensible scale of disaster that killed thousands of people, utterly destroyed a quarter of San Francisco's buildings, and rendered tens of thousands of survivors homeless in the Golden City by the Bay.
Download or read book Earthquake Days written by David Burkhart and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "1906 San Francisco comes to life in this unique collection of over 100 original stereo photographs (viewer included) of the "City-by-the-Bay". These haunting 3-D images were created before, during and after the earthquake and fire.
