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Geboortedatum: 1833-10-01
Overlijdensdatum: 1922-09-07
Geslacht: male
Korte biografie: Charles Smith Morris (1833-1922) was a dime novelist, historian, and compiler. His early works included short stories, poems, and serials published in Beadle's "Saturday Journal". He wrote eleven volumes of "Historical Tales", four school histories of the US, a "History of the World", the "True Story of Mexico", and a "History of Pennsylvania". Morris wrote biographies of Queen Victoria and President McKinley, and lurid books about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1902 volcanic eruptions on Martinique. He edited a report of Cook's and Peary's polar explorations.

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Historical tales; the romance of reality, 8 volume… door Charles Morris

9 volume set.$10 each.

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susangeib | 1 andere bespreking | Sep 24, 2023 |

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALAMITY By Earthquake and Fire, A… door Charles Morris

Only about 40% of the book is dedicated to San Francisco, though Scull’s drawing pepper the rest of the book. Chapter 14, at page 177, broadens the discussion to other seismic disturbances of the year, and records “From far away New Zealand, on the same date, the government seismograph at the capital, Wellington, recorded seismic waves that apparently passed round the earth five times at intervals of about four hours each.”
That point pivots the book to other, mostly volcanic , disasters, notably Vesuvius, but also Etna and Stromboli, and then moves on to Iceland, the Pacific Islands and Hawaii, Central America, Krakatoa, Mont Pelee. Chapter 30 discusses submarine volcanoes and their island building character. The last chapter discusses mud volcanoes, geysers and hot springs.
Only one of the photos is credited.… (meer)

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2wonderY | Jan 16, 2015 |

Famous men and great events of the nineteenth… door Charles Morris

This volume shows the values as much as the history of an era long passed. When I acquired my copy among the pages was a 4 page leaflet with page one featuring a full page photo of downtown San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake. There are no cars but lots of horses and carriages and a trolley.

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WilliamAllen | Nov 14, 2009 |

The Volcano's Deadly Work: from The Fall of Pompeii… door Charles Smith Morris

Another disaster book with a lengthy title.

full title, from the cover:
The Volcano's Deadly Work: from The Fall of Pompeii
to the Destruction of St. Pierre
The Greatest Calamities of All History
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from the title page:
The Volcano's Deadly Work
From the Fall of Pompeii to the Destruction of St. Pierre
With a Full Explanation in Language Easily Understood of the Causes Which Lead Up to These Most Disastrous and Destructive Upheavals of Nature
A Vivid and Accurate Story of the Awful Calamity Which Visited the Islands of Martinique and St. Vincent, May 8, 1902, as Told by Eye-Witnesses and
by Our Special Representative
General Samuel A. McAlister, Consul of the United States at Barbados
Edited and Written by Charles Morris, LL.D.
Member of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia and of the Academy of Natural Sciences and Author of Many Valuable Treatises on Physical Phenomena
Profusely Illustrated with Numerous Photographic Reproductions Made Expressly for This Work… (meer)

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