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Floodpath. The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster Of 20th-Century America And The Making Of Modern Los Angeles JOHN WILKMAN

Floodpath. The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster Of 20th-Century America And The Making Of Modern Los Angeles

JOHN WILKMAN

Other works by JOHN WILKMAN

Publication: Bloomsbury Press, 2016, New York

First edition. 8vo. Paper over boards, titles stamped in white on the spine, maps on front and rear endpapers, [8], 326 [1] pp., prologue, illustrated from photographs and drawings, maps, acknowledgments, selected bibliography, notes, index. The author provides a detailed history of the collapse of the 28-story St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles, California on the St. Francis River in 1928. This disaster ranks second only to the San Francisco earthquake in the annals of California disasters. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

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