Basin and Range
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374516901
- ISBN 13
- 9780374516901
- Seller
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Maysville, Georgia, United States
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Synopsis
The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, "Basin and Range" is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges that are green with junipers and often white with snow. The terrain becomes the setting for a lyrical evocation of the science of geology, with important digressions into the plate-tectonics revolution and the history of the geologic time scale.
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- Bookseller
- BookRanger (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR-1117-273
- Title
- Basin and Range
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Softcover. Glued binding is square and tight. Block and pages are clean and unmarked.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus; Third Printing stated
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374516901
- ISBN 13
- 9780374516901
- Publisher
- Farrar Strauss Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
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