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Book Description:
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon themselves. Simon Winchester's breathtaking story delves deep beneath the surface of the earth and explains to us why the world moves as it does; and breaks apart with such devastating results. At the same time he never lets us forget the human story: what happened in this new, seemingly blessed city on the 18th April 1906. As he vividly portrays the lives of the people who suffered and survived the devastation he also tells a universal story: the hubris of man as he ignores the warnings of nature and how we respond and try to understand the world around us. Compelling, moving and enlightening, Simon Winchester brings to light the world beneath our feet and through the story of this one terrifying event one hundred years ago, begins to make sense of our world now.
中文簡介：
一座新城市在美國淘金熱時期建立。1906年，這座城市所有的夢想被一場可怕的地震所粉碎。本書深刻揭示了暗藏在地表下面的令人震撼的力量，告訴讀者為什么地球會發生這些情況。同時，作者詳盡地描述了發生在1906年4月18日這場令人難忘的地震。人們的遭遇，承受的痛苦，歷盡險阻生存下來……
About 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.
賽門?溫契斯特，出生成長在英格蘭，曾在非洲、愛爾蘭、印度和中國等國家生活，現定居于紐約及麻省西部的伯克夏山。作為一名有三十多年工作經驗的駐外記者，他的報道幾乎涵蓋世界各地。并為美國和英國的多家雜志及報刊撰稿，其出版的著作也獲得很高的贊譽。《瘋子?教授?大字典》、《改變世界的地圖》、《克拉卡托亞火山爆發記》三部作品也在全球掀起熱賣風潮。
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