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Product Description: In the wake of San Francisco's 1906 catastrophe, an enterprising publisher dispatched journalist Charles Morris to obtain firsthand narratives from survivors. Morris's gripping report was rushed to press a few weeks later, providing "a complete and accurate account of the fearful disaster which visited the great city and the Pacific coast, the reign of panic and lawlessness, the plight of 300,000 homeless people, and the worldwide rush to the rescue...read more
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9780486802756 | Dover Pubns, January 14, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In the wake of San Francisco's 1906 catastrophe, an enterprising publisher dispatched journalist Charles Morris to obtain firsthand narratives from survivors.
Product Description: For most San Franciscans, April 18, 1906 started at 5:12 am with sixty-five seconds of violent quaking followed by a relentless, raging fire that left 98% of the structures in the most populated part of the city in ruins. However, although everyone felt the earthquake equally, they did not all suffer to the same degree...read more
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9781439904329 | Temple Univ Pr, November 11, 2011, cover price $89.50 | About this edition: For most San Franciscans, April 18, 1906 started at 5:12 am with sixty-five seconds of violent quaking followed by a relentless, raging fire that left 98% of the structures in the most populated part of the city in ruins.
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9781439904336 | Temple Univ Pr, November 11, 2011, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: How the relief and rebuilding efforts after the 1906 disaster reproduced the class and racial divisions of pre-quake San Francisco
Product Description: Charles Morris (1833-1922) was a prolific American writer. He wrote dime novels under a variety of pseudonyms. He also compiled the series Historical Tales: The Romance of Reality (1893-1908). Amongst his other works are Half- Hours with the Best American Authors (1887), Tales from the Dramatists (1893), Half-Hours of Travel at Home and Abroad (1896), Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century (1899), A New History of the United States: The Greater Republic (1899), Man and His Ancestor (1900), With the World's Great Travellers (1901), Famous Orators of the World (1902), The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire (1906) and Men of Affairs in New York (1906)...read more
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9781409903628 | Dodo Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $24.99 | also contains The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire | About this edition: Charles Morris (1833-1922) was a prolific American writer.
9781426401541 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, January 31, 2008), cover price $26.99 | also contains The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire | About this edition: INCLUDING GRAPHIC AND RELIABLE ACCOUNTS OF ALL GREAT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE WORLDâS HISTORY, AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR CAUSES.
9781426400254 | Bibliobazaar, January 31, 2008, cover price $31.75 | also contains The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire | About this edition: INCLUDING GRAPHIC AND RELIABLE ACCOUNTS OF ALL GREAT EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN THE WORLDâS HISTORY, AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS OF THEIR CAUSES.
9780252070969 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: On the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by a violent earthquake that shook the city and ignited an even deadlier menace -- a three-day fire that burned up and down the city's streets and incinerated its buildings and neighborhoods.
A definitive account of the 1906 earthquake and resulting firestorms that devastated the city of San Francisco explains how human ineptitude and power politics nearly destroyed the city by failing to serve the needs of its ordinary citizens or to consider the disaster's long-lasting psychological effects, resulting in a period of unparalleled civic upheaval. Reprint.
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9780520230606 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2005, cover price $85.00
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9780520248205 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2006), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A definitive account of the 1906 earthquake and resulting firestorms that devastated the city of San Francisco explains how human ineptitude and power politics nearly destroyed the city by failing to serve the needs of its ordinary citizens or to consider the disaster's long-lasting psychological effects, resulting in a period of unparalleled civic upheaval.
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9781592281398 | Lyons Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An in-depth account of the 1906 earthquake that reduced San Francisco to rubble draws on eyewitness accounts to provide a gripping look at the catastrophe, it devastating impact on the city and the nation, and heroic efforts to rebuild the city.
The George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.3 on the Richter scale--and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble killing ten thousand people. Reprint.
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9780783897486 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, January 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: On the morning of April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 8.
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9780060084325, titled "Disaster: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906" | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.
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9780061051746 | Harper Entertainment, May 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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.
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