San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake, credited to William Henry Irwin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake by William Henry Irwin. Read in English by David Wales As all but Martians know (and who knows, perhaps even they), the city of San Francisco, California, was destroyed by massive earthquake and unquenchable fire in April, 1906. Will Irwin was a sometime San Franciscan who was then living in New York. He wrote a piece for the newspaper The Sun on April 21st, remembering and describing he city that was no more. He called it The City That Was. Four years later he returned to San Francisco and, amazed at the rebuilding, wrote a second piece for The San Francisco Call which he entitled The City That Is. The first endeavor became famous and was frequently reprinted; it made the reputation of Irwin as a reporter. - Summary by David Wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: San Francisco Before And After The Earthquake
• Author credits: William Henry Irwin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 50:26

Catalogue topics

• San Francisco
• California
• earthquake

Track guide

1. 01 - The City That Was; A Requiem Of Old San Francisco (1906) Part 1 — 18:29
2. 02 - The City That Was; A Requiem Of Old San Francisco (1906) Part 2 — 22:11
3. 03 - The City That Is (1910) — 9:45

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