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Title: Geology, history, and personal ramblings
Review: Winchester writes about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He began with some accounts of the quake, launches into some geology, and begins describing a trip he made to California. Yawn. For all of this, his writing style seems overly dramatic. Then he spent a few chapters giving a good little geology lesson. If not for his dramatic voice, this would have been dull indeed. Instead it was quite interesting. He follows that with a history of California and the SF area. Eventually he gets to the event in question.I'd compare Winchester's approach to David McCullough's in "The Johnstown Flood." He moves through the destruction, looking at it from a distance, and then darts in for anecdotes.From "A Crack in the Edge of the World" you get a riveting retelling of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, a geology lesson, and a quick tour of the history of the American West.
