![]() ![]() The rest of the story deals with Edith and her maid attempting to find Edith's father, who became lost in that chaos, and with having to try to survive in the aftermath of the earthquake with fires everywhere, buildings collapsing every minute, people searching desperately for their loved ones and with food and water scarce.Īlso, there's a secondary theme of the story, which is the attempt on the part of San Francisco's politicians to cover up the extent of the deaths and damage to the city. However, when they are on the boat in the harbor, an earthquake strikes the city and they watch the San Francisco's shoreline in horror. Edith's father has business to attend to in the city and Edith and her maid are in route to a photography exhibit in Europe. The account begins when Edith, her father and their maid, the fifteen year old Daisy Valentine, are on their way to San Francisco. It's based on the life of Edith Irvine, a twenty two year old photographer who was in San Francisco on that day. ![]() This book is a fictionalized account of actual events that took place during the San Francisco earthquake on April 18, 1906. ![]() San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1992. ![]()
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