Author of Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake, published by the University of Washington Press as part of the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series.

Dr. Joanna L. Dyl is available to speak at colleges and universities, bookstores, and other organizations on a variety of topics including:

• the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire

• natural disasters and history

• rebuilding after natural disasters

• environmental injustice and natural disasters

Seismic City is available in hardcover, paperback, and audiobook!

The audiobook is available through Amazon and at Audible.com:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Seismic-City-Audiobook/B07L8MXQY2

Reviews of Seismic City:

H-Environment Roundtable Review featuring a dialogue by scholars on Seismic City and a response by the author, edited by Kara Murphy Schlichting:

https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/environmentalroundtable-10-4.pdf

Check out the first review of Seismic City on the environmental history/studies blog, Edge Effects: “The Potential for Peril Built into San Francisco,” by Shari Wilcox

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