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Rising from the Plains
de McPhee, John
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374250820
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250829
- Librería
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
N Y: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards bumped and lightly faded. Edge wear and small tears on dust jacket. Endpapers show chart of geologic eras. 214 pages. ""This is about high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. I raise that semaphore here at the start so no one will feel misled by an opening passage in which a slim young woman who is not in any sense a geologist steps down from a train in Rawlins, Wyoming, in order to go north by stagecoach into country that was still very much the Old West."" [blurb]
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
- Pistil Books Online
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 155575
- Título
- Rising from the Plains
- Autor
- McPhee, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0374250820
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250829
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- N Y
- Fecha de publicación
- 1986
- Palabras clave
- geology, first Edition, High-Country, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, Ranch, Landscape, History
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Geology;
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