Rising from the Plains
de John McPhee
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374250820
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250829
- Librería
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sinopsis
Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain , it continues to present a cross-section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the century, and of the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea. While Rising from the Plains is a portrayal of extraordinary people, it is also a history of the landscape around them, where, with remarkable rapidity, mountains came up out of the flat terrain. Gradually, the mountains were buried, until only the higher peaks remained above a vast plain. Recently, they have been exhumed, and they stand now as the Rockies. -Description from First Edition (1986 Dust Jacket)
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- Librería
- NWJBOOKS (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 006450
- Título
- Rising from the Plains
- Autor
- John McPhee
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374250820
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250829
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1986
- Páginas
- 224
- Palabras clave
- nonfiction; geology; natural history
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