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This quote is just one of 8 total Simon Winchester quotes in our collection. Simon Winchester is known for saying 'A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.' as well as some of the following quotes.
The comparisons to Katrina are numerous and just eerie.
Priests roved around the ruins, selecting at random those they believed guilty of heresy and thus to blame for annoying the Divine, who in turn had ordered up the disaster. The priests had them hanged on the spot.
This quote is just one of 8 total Simon Winchester quotes in our collection. Simon Winchester is known for saying 'A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.' as well as some of the following quotes.