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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Morris, Michael (jacket design); Mapping Speicialists (maps) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition gold boards, textured gold spine, and black spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading; Additional Sources; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and preliminary page two page map. Remainder mark at lower page edge. "The Great Quake explains how one of North America's worst recent natural disasters led to a fascinating insight. Henry Fountain offers a gripping tale of loss, heroism and, ultimately, discovery." - Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "Henry Fountain knows earthquakes, and he knows how to spin a yarn. The Great Quake is the fascinating result. It takes meticulous research and real narrative skill to tell a story that moves this fast yet still feles so complete. The book shines on two levels: as a portraint of two quirky frontier communities before, during and after a stunning disaster, and as the story of an unpretentious geologist whose brilliant analysis of the great quake's causes provided crucial backing for one of the biggest ideas in all of science." - Dan Fagin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "For five terrifying minutes in 1964, the earth shook beneath Anchorage, Alaska. It devastated the city and towns and villages throughout the state. In this fast paced, engaging account of that disaster, Henry Fountain tells us what it was like to be there. His interviews with fortunate survivors bear witness to the pluck and determination of the human spirit - and reveal the better side of our nature in times of crisis." - Virginia Morell, author. "Riveting. Science journalism at its best - lucid, clear, engaging and authoritative. My hands were shaking after reading his description of the havoc and raw fury unleashed by Mother Nature in a 9.0 earthquake." - Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics and bestselling author. "In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history - the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega - and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake - the second most powerful in world history - struck the young state of Alaska. The violent shaking, followed by massive tsunamis, devastated the southern half of the state and killed more than 130 people. A day later, George Plafker, a geologist with the US Geological Survey, arrived to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. In a compelling tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain brings the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep, on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake left its mark on the land and its people - and on science." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Amft, Lynne (book design); Mapping Specialists (map) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition blue green boards, black spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Introduction by Frances Fitzgerald; A Note on the Translation by Andrew X. Pham; Chronology and Epilogue. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates, map, and two-color illustrated front and rear endpapers. Translated by Andrew X. Pham. Notes by Jane Barton Griffith, Robert Whitehurst, and Dang Kim Tram. "As much a drama of feelings as a drama of war." - Seth Mydans, New York Times. "If only I had wings to fly back to our beautiful house on Lo Duc Street, to eat with Dad, Mom, and my siblings, one simple meal with watercress and one night's sleep under the old cotton blanket. Last night I dreamed of peace. I came back and saw everybody. Oh, the dream of peace and independence has burned in the hearts of thirty million people for so long." - Dang Thuy Tram, from the rear outer cover. "At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks poignantly of her devotion to family and country, the horrors of war, her yearning for her high school sweetheart, and her struggle to prove herself worthy of Communist Party membership. At times raw, at times lyrical and youthfully sentimental, her voice transcends cultures to speak of her dignity and compassion in the face of the war's ceaseless fury. The American soldier who discovered the diary soon after Dr. Tram's death defied orders to burn all such materials and preserved it for thirty-five years, eventually returning a copy to Dr. Tram's elderly mother in Hanoi. The diary was soon published in Vietnam, where it became a huge bestseller and a national sensation. Translated by Andrew X. Pham and with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Frances FitzGerald, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is an extraordinary document that narrates one woman's personal and political struggles. Above all, it is a story of hope in the most dire of circumstances - told from the perspective of our historic enemy but universal in its power to celebrate and mourn the fragility of human life." - from the inner front jacket flap.