IN SUSPECT TERRAIN
de McPhee, John
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1983), 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in the publisher's brown cloth covered boards, gilt to the spine in a lovely pc. pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 210 pp. A master of the non-fiction genre, McPhee's ease with his subject matter lures the reader into eager par ticipation.
Sinopsis
From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others—a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern collision of ideas about the origins of the mountain range; and, in contrast, a century-old collision of ideas about the existence of the Ice Age. The central figure is Anita Harris, an internationally celebrated geologist who went into her profession to get out of a Brooklyn ghetto. The unifying theme is plate tectonics—here concentrating on the acceptance that all aspects of the theory do not universally enjoy. As such, In Suspect Terrain is a report from the rough spots at the front edge of a science.
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- TBCL The Book Collection Library
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- 19762
- Título
- IN SUSPECT TERRAIN
- Autor
- McPhee, John
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- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Dust Jacket Included
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- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Farrar Straus Giroux, (1983)
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983
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- FIRST EDITION .
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- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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