Philip L. Fradkin

"In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."

How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself

The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906

"Philip Fradkin's work is full of foresight, good sense, and an understanding of the ties between social and environmental dilemmas. Taking Fradkin's writing seriously is an important step in figuring out the American West today."—Patricia Nelson Limerick

A Natural and Human History

The Seven States of California

Follows the story of Everett Ruess, a naturalist and artist of the early twentieth century whose disappearance sparked a myth of a romantic desert wanderer.

His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife

Everett Ruess

Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on the river to supply cities in the desert render this new edition all too timely. Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface.

The Colorado River and the West

A River No More

Rebecca Solnit

Karin Breuer

Mark Klett

Michael Lundgren

Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)

Compares photographs taken just after the fires of the 1906 earthquake with new photos of modern San Francisco from the same vantage points, in a photo essay created in conjunction with the exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California.

Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006

“Respectful of his subject but never worshipful, Fradkin has given us our first full critical portrait of the man and his protean career..”—Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Wallace Stegner and the American West

A stirring travelogue takes readers into the heart of Alaska in search of the region's great natural beauty and diversity and explores how the forces of the natural world--earthquakes, landslides, giant waves, and climate--have shaped the landscape.

Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay

Wildest Alaska

A "superb cautionary tale (that) should be required reading for every Californian" (Mike Davis, author of "City of Quartz"), "Magnitude 8" reaches beyond the earthshaking moment to examine the mythology, culture, social implications, politics, and science of earthquakes. Map.

Philip L. Fradkin

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