Philip L. Fradkin

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Sagebrush Country: Land and the American West Description of new work

The Backstories of Selected Works Nonfiction Wallace Stegner and the American West The definitive life of the West's outstanding writer, teacher of writers, and conservationist. A River No More: The Colorado River and the West The use and abuse of the West's lifeblood, water. Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy Radioactive fallout from the Nevada Test Site caused innocent people to die. Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault (Volume I in the Earthquake Trilogy) A history and description of earthquakes in general, the San Andreas Fault in particular, and a discussion of the adequacy of the science of seismology. Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay (Volume II in the Earthquake Trilogy) Giant waves, five hundred feet higher than the Empire State Building, sweep a remote Alaska Bay. The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself (Volume III in the Earthquake Trilogy) The nation's greatest urban disaster levels a modern American city. Quick Links E-mail the Author To order the Stegner biography from Knopf To order quality paperback editions of Fradkin's books from the University of California Press Website for coastal and other photographs by Alex Fradkin

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