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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.
中文简介：
一座新城市在美国淘金热时期建立。1906年，这座城市所有的梦想被一场可怕的地震所粉碎。本书深刻揭示了暗藏在地表下面的令人震撼的力量，告诉读者为什么地球会发生这些情况。同时，作者详尽地描述了发生在1906年4月18日这场令人难忘的地震。人们的遭遇，承受的痛苦，历尽险阻生存下来……
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.
赛门‧温契斯特，出生成长在英格兰，曾在非洲、爱尔兰、印度和中国等国家生活，现定居于纽约及麻省西部的伯克夏山。作为一名有三十多年工作经验的驻外记者，他的报道几乎涵盖世界各地。并为美国和英国的多家杂志及报刊撰稿，其出版的著作也获得很高的赞誉。《疯子‧教授‧大字典》、《改变世界的地图》、《克拉卡托亚火山爆发记》三部作品也在全球掀起热卖风潮。
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