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Rising from the Plains

Rising from the Plains

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Rising from the Plains

by McPhee, John

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ISBN 10
0374250820
ISBN 13
9780374250829
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New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986. 2nd Printing . Cloth Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Usual ex-library markings. Dj is in a wrap. Book slightly cocked. Lightly bumped corners. Very light soiling. Light wear.

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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Seller's Inventory #
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Title
Rising from the Plains
Author
McPhee, John
Format/Binding
Cloth Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
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Edition
2nd Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0374250820
ISBN 13
9780374250829
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1986
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Product_type
Ex-Library

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