Early in the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the San Francisco area was shaken by a massive earthquake. Over the course of the next four days, f...
The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic manner, but instead the attempt ha...
The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on Januar...
The tremendous speed of the dive brought them so close that they could see the skeletons of wrecked ships piled up at the base of the precipice. The m...
The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern geology of the 1909, with topics that include the building and shaping of the ea...
"The Night The Mountain Fell" plunges readers into the heart of an unforgettable catastrophe. Edmund Christopherson masterfully recounts the harrowing...
This book chronicles the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and the ensuing fire, drawing from the firsthand accounts of survivors and witne...
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco's rebuilding after the devastating 1906 earthquake, "Avalanche" tells the story of Price Ruyler, a young man...
This volume of the National Geographic Magazine, published in September 1896, provides a comprehensive overview of the world's geography and scientifi...