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Bezig met laden... A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fatedoor Marc Reisner
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Too much time is taken up in this book with the author's fictional scenario, which, though interesting in places, drags on and is not helpful in dealing with his subject matter. One gets the feeling that he had too little information, and felt the need to pad the book with the fiction. If so, this could only be the result of incomplete research, since there is a multitude of information out there on earthquakes, and the subject of earthquakes along the San Andreas fault could fill several volumes. ( ) The late Marc Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, tells Californians the truth about our strange choice to settle on seismically unstable ground. As he details it, San Francisco’s port made it an inevitable site for a major city, but Los Angeles was created out of nothing by land speculators--in both cases, these were the worst spots in the state for cities. Once a major city is established, it’s almost always rebuilt rather than moved, no matter how bad the damage or how grave the danger. The final third of the book is taken up with a graphic description of the effects of a 7.2 earthquake--far from a worst-case scenario--on the Bay Area. It’s an eye-opener that makes Sacramento look like a pretty good place to be--even though we’re not exactly shake-proof, either. (Reviewed in SN&R, 8-14-03, www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=15642) Mark Reisner’s last book (published posthumously) is high on my list of books my mother should never read. California, it’s true, is a dangerous place, a place where no one sane would live. Reisner’s story of California’s explosive growth in the face of harsh environmental conditions and threats is engaging, amusing, and well worth seeking out. Reisner’s death in 2000 is a great loss. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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One in two people living west of the 100th meridian in the United States resides in California. Crammed into the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles Basin is a population greater than that of Texas. Both these drought-prone regions need to import water over seemingly improbably distances. Reliance on imported water, however, is not their Achilles heel; it is the fact that each sits astride one of the most violently active seismic zones in the world. This study chronicles the man-made eruption of development and progress over since the 1850s and a natural history of the subterranean upheavals that have threatened the human achievement. It concludes by describing in chillingly realistic detail the potential impact of an earthquake originating in the 60-mile Hayward Fault running from San Francisco to San Jose. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)979.4History and Geography North America Great Basin and West Coast U.S. CaliforniaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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