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Annals of the Former World
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: John McPhee
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-15 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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
The Control of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: John McPhee
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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
Basin and Range
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: John McPhee
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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
Magpie Rising
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Merrill Gilfillan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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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
In Suspect Terrain
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: John McPhee
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections