Title: Thin Fare
Product review: The BIg One is more like USA Today than John McPhee - it's written at about an 8th grade level and doesn't tell much. You'll come out not knowing much more than you went in with. There are strange statements here, such as that the 1811 quake killed about 1500 people, while in fact no one knows how many - if any - deaths there were. The pitch that the quake "helped create a science" is also wrong - the quake had no role in the science's growth just because no one knows what caused it. There are lots of good popular geology books out there - but this isn't one of them.
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