A Crack in the Edge of the World

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Geologist Simon Winchester (the author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa), turns his attention to the devastating 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. In A Crack in the Edge of the World, he looks at one of the biggest natural disasters in US history.

Events:
Simon Winchester will be giving a talk and signing books this Thursday at the 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Library at 7 o’clock – and again, on November 2nd at the Barnes & Noble on 82nd and Broadway at 7 o’clock, too!

Music:
Music from Seabiscuit #1, 2

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