California Fault: Searching for the Spirit of a State Along the San Andreas

Thurston Clarke. Ballantine Books, $12.95 (417pp) ISBN 978-0-345-40908-9

A portrait of California through the lenses of history, sociology, personality and seismology. (July)

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