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Basin and Range
by McPhee, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374109141
- ISBN 13
- 9780374109141
- Seller
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux; (1981). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, with no statement of printing on the copyright page, near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Very light soiling to the top edge of the page block. The jacket spine is sunned, otherwise the jacket has just minor wear. $10.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. Includes endpaper charts of geologic eras; 216 pages. A tight, square copy.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Tulsa Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000153
- Title
- Basin and Range
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374109141
- ISBN 13
- 9780374109141
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux; (1981)
- Place of Publication
- NY
- This edition first published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Geology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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About the Seller
Tulsa Books
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
About Tulsa Books
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Fine
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- Copyright page
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