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Basin and Range
by McPhee, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374109141
- ISBN 13
- 9780374109141
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing signed by McPhee on the fly title. A very-good-plus hardcover, with some slight sunning or wear to upper and lower edges of the tan boards with black cloth, some slight bowing, and perhaps as a result, some barely perceptible waviness to the second half of the text block. The jacket is very good with sunning to spine (usual for this book). A road trip through Nevada and geologic time. The first installment of what would become McPhees Pulitzer-prize-winning compilation Annals of the Former World. Please inquire for photos.
Synopsis
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 juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges that are green with junipers and often white with snow. The terrain becomes the setting for a lyrical evocation of the science of geology, with important digressions into the plate-tectonics revolution and the history of the geologic time scale.
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- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1593624635313
- Title
- Basin and Range
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374109141
- ISBN 13
- 9780374109141
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
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