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IN SUSPECT TERRAIN
de McPhee, John
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374176507
- ISBN 13
- 9780374176501
- Librería
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Farrar * Straus * Giroux, 1983. First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo, light brown cloth, Mylar-protected dust jacket with colored painting of the "Delaware Water Gap" by George Innes (1859), colored geological era charts for endpapers, [210] pages. The author"s sixteenth book and the second in his geological series of books. McPhee draws on the expertise of an internally-known geologist, Anita Harris, to explain in four sections a fascinating tale of geology. He includes a biography of Harris, plus an examination of an Appalachian landscape that illustrates human history in conflict with the ice age. His journeys with Anita Harris in ancient lands are juxtaposed with travels in the modern world. Book is in exceptional condition internally and externally (though there is a minute discoloration to the upper edge of the dust jacket).
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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- Librería
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 789
- Título
- IN SUSPECT TERRAIN
- Autor
- McPhee, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0374176507
- ISBN 13
- 9780374176501
- Editorial
- Farrar * Straus * Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983
- Palabras clave
- New York, New Jersey, Indiana Dunes, Appalachia, geology, fieldwork, Delaware, New Jersey
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