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Rising From the Plains
by John McPhee
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986 Unclipped dust jacket with price intact. Includes promotional John McPhee bookmark, listing his previously published books. Clean text and interior. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt title on spine. I have many other titles by this author.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
Synopsis
Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain , it continues to present a cross-section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the century, and of the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea. While Rising from the Plains is a portrayal of extraordinary people, it is also a history of the landscape around them, where, with remarkable rapidity, mountains came up out of the flat terrain. Gradually, the mountains were buried, until only the higher peaks remained above a vast plain. Recently, they have been exhumed, and they stand now as the Rockies. -Description from First Edition (1986 Dust Jacket)
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- Bookseller
- Genesee Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101733
- Title
- Rising From the Plains
- Author
- John McPhee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Date Published
- 1986
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