Black fire

the true story of the original Tom Sawyer--and of the mysterious fires that baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco

English language

Published Dec. 17, 2012 by Crown.

ISBN:
978-0-307-72056-6
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OCLC Number:
773278509

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1 star

I couldn't even finish this, which is an extremely rare thing for me. Badly needed an editor, and (I suspect) a fact-checker: instead of reading like a work of history, it read like a novel, implausibly certain of things that were said and things that went on that were highly unlikely to be documented. Shame, because it is an interesting period of the city's history - it deserves a better book.

Subjects

  • Friends and associates
  • Arson
  • Adventure and adventurers
  • Sources
  • Fires
  • Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character)
  • Fire fighters
  • Biography
  • History

Places

  • San Francisco (Calif.)
  • California
  • San Francisco