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The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
by Quigley, Joan
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400061806
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061808
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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Synopsis
Joan Quigley first glimpsed the Centralia mine fire at age fifteen, during her grandmother’s funeral at St. Ignatius Cemetery. A former Miami Herald business reporter, she is a graduate of Princeton and of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is a recipient of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for this book. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2231415
- Title
- The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
- Author
- Quigley, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1400061806
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061808
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- April 3, 2007
- Keywords
- History, Mining, 1st, , .
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