In Suspect Terrain
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- BOOK FINE/JACKET FINE
- Seller
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LEXINGTON, South Carolina, United States
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Books Plus, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17032
- Title
- In Suspect Terrain
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - BOOK FINE
- Jacket Condition
- JACKET FINE
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾""
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