An edition of Annals of the former world (1983)

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An edition of Annals of the former world (1983)

Annals of the former world

1st ed.
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"Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross-section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with." "Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a many-layered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it, guided by twenty-five new maps and the "Narrative Table of Contents" (an essay outlining the history and structure of the project). Read sequentially, the book is an organic succession of set pieces, flashbacks, biographical sketches, and histories of the human and lithic kind; approached systematically, it can be a North American geology primer, an exploration of plate tectonics, or a study of geologic time and the development of the time scale."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
695

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Cover of: Annals of the former world
Annals of the former world
2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st paperback ed
Cover of: Annals of the former world
Annals of the former world
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Annals of the former world
Annals of the former world
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World: Limited Edition
October 11, 1983, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
557.3
Library of Congress
QE77 .M38 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
695 p. :
Number of pages
695

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL692460M
Internet Archive
annalsofformerwo00mcph
ISBN 10
0374105200
LCCN
97039660
Library Thing
124018
Goodreads
91932

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