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A Dangerous Place : California's Unsettling Fate
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Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: July 27, 2004
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Writing with a signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Marc Reisner leads us through Californias improbable rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the success of this last great desert civilization hinges on Californias denial of its own inescapable fate: Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner, a mere prologue to a future cataclysm that will result in immense destruction. Concluding with a hypothetical but chillingly realistic description of what such a disaster would look like, A Dangerous Place mixes science, history, and cultural commentary in a haunting work of profound importance.
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Rating:  - A Dangerous PLace
Stacey Fredrickson
Earth Science Honors
Block G
A Dangerous Place
By: Marc Reisner
A Dangerous Place is an Intense Book. If you thought California got a lot of earthquakes, you have no idea until you read this book. This Book tells you about all of California's earthquakes and the damage they have caused. It also tells you how California was founded and why people settled on this dangerous land. The author does an excellent job explaining the intensity ... Read More
Rating:  - A dangerous place
The book A Dangerous Place is about California and its difficulties. It explains all of the weather related events that go on there. Some of the events are pretty horrible, such as the Great white winter of 1886, and the seismic quietude era, between 1906-1917. That was when the most damaging earthquakes took place. Another earth quake was the Kobe quake; it took place early in the morning thankfully only being a mid-level collapse. There is a scale for earth quakes, and a 7.0-7.7 is a major ... Read More
Rating: - Short and Sweet...
Clearly, the first part of this book was based on research done for "Cadillac Desert" and focuses on the history of growth and water supplies for San Francisco and LA. However, the second and third sections are new: the second section covers the vulnerability of these water supplies to earthquakes (many earthquake faults cross where the water supply lines are built, The third section is a quite realistic scenario of what would happen in the Bay Area in the event of a 7.2 (I think) earthquake. The ... Read More
Rating:  - It Makes You Think
In light of Hurricane Katrina, and if you live in California, a must read. Quick, easy, scary, and thought provoking. It should be required reading for all of those who make decisions in California.
Rating: - Welcome To My Nightmare!
A Dangerous Place by Marc Reisner is a difficult book to review - even though it contains the eloquent prose a reader expects from the author of the classic Cadillac Desert, it also represents an incomplete effort due to the author's untimely death. That said - and 4 stars assigned - let's move on to why this book is worth reading.
Marc Reisner has once again nailed the situation on the head - California, had we known then what we know now, was a really cruddy place to put a heavily populated ... Read More
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