Highly recommend. I love this book. Talk about a well-researched book. Over half the book is just one day of the earthquake and fire. You really get an understanding of what life was like for the people of San Francisco over those few days. There is no needless fluff to fill the pages that so many disaster books have. This tells you a bit of history as a setup, and then it goes into the disaster and stays there. It also tells you what happens to the major players after the fire at the end. This book has set the bar very high for a disaster book