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An edition of A dangerous place: California's unsettling fate (2003)

A dangerous place

California's unsettling fate

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"In A Dangerous Place, Marc Reisner leads us through California's improbable history and rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the achievement of this, the last great desert civilization, hinges on California's denial of its own inescapable fate. Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet.

The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, mere prologues to a future cataclysm that will result in destruction of such magnitude that the only recourse will be to rebuild from the ground up. Reisner concludes A Dangerous Place with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of such a disaster and its horrifying after effects."--BOOK JACKET.

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Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
181

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Subjects

Forecasting, Naturkatastrophe, Earthquake damage, Environmental conditions, Prognose, Natural disasters, Environmental sciences, Environmental protection, Soziale Situation, Social conditions, Disasters, Earthquake zones, History, New York Times reviewed, California, description and travel, California, history, California, social conditions, United states, environmental conditions

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Cover of: Dangerous Place
Dangerous Place
2006, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: A Dangerous Place
A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate
July 27, 2004, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: A dangerous place
A dangerous place: California's unsettling fate
2003, Secker & Warburg
in English
Cover of: A dangerous place
A dangerous place: California's unsettling fate
2003, Secker & Warburg
in English
Cover of: A dangerous place
A dangerous place: California's unsettling fate
2003, Greystone Books
in English
Cover of: A dangerous place
A dangerous place: California's unsettling fate
2003, Pantheon Books
in English

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Edition Notes

Maps on lining papers.

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Dewey Decimal Class
979.4
Library of Congress
F861 .R43 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
181 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
181

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OL3570179M
Internet Archive
dangerousplaceca00reis
ISBN 10
0679420118
LCCN
2002073375
OCLC/WorldCat
49942192
Library Thing
369818
Goodreads
2768165

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