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A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate
A Dangerous Place California's Unsettling Fate
Author: Marc Reisner
In A Dangerous Place, Marc Reisner, the author of Cadillac Desert, the classic history of the American West and its fatal dependence on water, returns to the subject that never ceased to seduce him: California. Focusing on the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Angeles Basin, this study chronicles the man-made eruption ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679420118
ISBN-10: 0679420118
Publication Date: 2/11/2003
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Pantheon
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Marc Reisner has a writing style that keeps the reader riveted from sentence to sentence. This book is about his homeland, California. The book discusses California's lack of water and its earthquakes, and then concludes to show what will happens when an earthquake disrupts the precious flow of water to the huge desert metropolis in Southern California. Lots of great history on the state.

I consider Reisner's previous book, Cadillac Desert, the best book I've ever read, and this later book does not disappoint. If you like 19th and 20th century western history, you'll love this one.
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