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Language: en
Pages: 448
Pages: 448
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-15 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his j
Language: en
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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 juxtapositio
Language: en
Pages: 212
Pages: 212
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska?s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid?stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled?in Fort Su
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where
Language: en
Pages: 303
Pages: 303
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of Cal