An edition of Basin and range (1980)

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An edition of Basin and range (1980)

Basin and range.

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From the blog View From The Blue House - "John McPhee is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. In 1978 he started a set of journeys across America with geologists that turned into a series of five books published over twenty years. Basin and Range is the first book in the series and mostly concerns the geological landscape from eastern Utah to eastern California. Rather than produce a straight science narrative about the geology of the region, or a conventional history of the science of geology, McPhee instead travels with geologists to explore and write about the landscape. The result is a rather eclectic set of stories and observations about the science of geology, the rocks visible in the landscape and hidden underground, the nature of time and the history of the geologic time scale, the unfolding of the theory of plate tectonics, and the work of geologists. In this sense, it seeks to create a discussion of geology that might appeal to the non-geologist and geologist alike; to create a kind of geo-prose that ruminates on the long history of the development of the Earth’s surface. "

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Cover of: Basin and Range
Basin and Range
1999, Recorded Books
Audio Cassette in English - Unabridged edition
Cover of: Basin and range
Basin and range
1990, Noonday Press
in English
Cover of: Basin and range
Basin and range
1982, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Noonday Press
in English - 1st pbk. ed.
Cover of: Basin and range
Basin and range
1981, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English
Cover of: Basin and range
Basin and range
1981, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English
Cover of: Basin and range
Basin and range
1980, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English
Cover of: Basin and range.
Basin and range.
1980, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
Cover of: Basin and range, by John A. McPhee
Basin and range, by John A. McPhee
Publish date unknown, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English

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Library of Congress
QE79 .M28 1981, QE79.M28 1981

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL21331494M
ISBN 10
0374109141
LCCN
80028679
OCLC/WorldCat
7173053
LibraryThing
106430
Goodreads
1670846

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Work ID
OL116219W

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