A Crack in the Edge of the World: Simon Winchester in Conversation with Hal Wake
Simon Winchester puts his talent as a researcher and storyteller to work to tell the story of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the people who lived through the devastation and why the world moves as it does. Winchester is a raconteur to the core.
Simon Winchester's A Crack in the Edge of the World is available from your local independent bookseller or online from these retailers:
Simon Winchester studied geology at Oxford and has written for Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. He is the author of The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World, The Professor and the Madman, The Fracture Zone, Outposts, Korea, among many other titles. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland. http://www.simonwinchester.com/ (APRIL 2010)
