America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Simon Winchester
Release date: 10/01/2005
In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was overcome by the violent shocks of an enormous earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale. The tremors and rumbling, affecting a...
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa - the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster - was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000...
Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Simon Winchester
Release date: 4/26/2005
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remains of what...
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