Oct 10, 2005 (Talk of the Nation) — In A Crack in the Edge of The World, author Simon Winchester studies the disaster of the San Francisco earthquake and how it led to Chinese immigration and the rise of the Pentecostal movement.
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Remembering the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Oct 10, 2005 (Talk of the Nation) — In A Crack in the Edge of The World, author Simon Winchester studies the disaster of the San Francisco earthquake and how it led to Chinese immigration and the rise of the Pentecostal movement.In A Crack in the Edge of The World, author Simon Winchester studies the disaster of the San Francisco earthquake and how it led to Chinese immigration and the rise of the Pentecostal movement.
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Simon Winchester, author of A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
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