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Title: Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire or 1906 by Gladys Hansen, Emmet Condon, David Fowler ISBN: 0-918684-33-1 Publisher: Cameron & Co Pub. Date: December, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good in almost all respects
Comment: For the most part I would agree with what other reviewers have said here. This is an excellent book on the SF earthquake and fire in almost all respects. The photos and drawings are probably the best one can find anywhere and the work is well researched. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone even remotely interested in the subject.
The reason I gave the book four stars instead of five is that it is written very mechanically. The authors spend much of the book telling us about the fate of individual buildings and so fail to tell the story of the disaster fully. At times it reads like an engineering report on San Francisco buildings. But this is a small flaw that should not deter anyone from getting the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: 1000 Stars
Comment: This NOT just another of those earthquake books!
Everyone devoted to the serious study of earthquakes or the mitigation of their hazard--geophysicists, seismologists, civil and structural engineers, architects, disaster relief workers, fire personnel, police, building officials and so on, all must have this book for their professional libraries. Yet they might overlook it for years, as I did, and I'm in that group. We might pass it by because it is so brilliantly written and beautifully illustrated, but there aren't any graphs or partial differential equations or whatever.
Interestingly, it is published by Cameron and Co., whose "Over London" etc. books have those astounding aerial photos. Well, I thought the new photos in this book must be by Cameron, they're so good. No, they're by Richard Hansen, Gladys Hansen's son, who also researched the old photos, and is a top-notch professional photographer, obviously.
So this is a top quality coffee-table book. But it is much, much more. It's the result of Hansen's many years of meticulous research and awesome scholarship on the subject, still going on, tracking the growing number of casualties (currently over 4000). It is an expose' of disgusting corruption, of arson and military looting. It describes the shaking, maps the areas of bad ground, the route of the fires, describes the misery of the refugees, and, finally, almost when one can stand no more bad stuff, true gut-level heroism. All is told in restrained, elegant prose, somehow making the catastrophe more profound. It is also the testament of a great San Francisco Fire Chief, terse, professional, of quietly distressing implications and of immense value to planners. It is a treasure, a classic. BUY IT!
Rating: 5
Summary: Is the future in the past?
Comment: This fine work incorporates not only a large number of historical and present day photographs but a thoughtful narrative as well. Excellent descriptions of the cowardice and heroism displayed during the earthquake and subsequent fire. Most importantly, the book examines the errors repeated during the rebuilding of San Francisco and the potential for danger in the next earthquake.
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Title: Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by Dan Kurzman ISBN: B00007CWQL Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Three Fearful Days: San Francisco Memoirs of the 1906 Earthquake & Fire by Malcolm E. Barker ISBN: 0930235061 Publisher: Londonborn Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: 1906: A Novel by James Dalessandro ISBN: 0811843130 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Disaster By the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by H Paul Jeffers ISBN: 1592281397 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld by Herbert Asbury ISBN: 1560254084 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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