Annals of the Former World Paperback - 2000
by John McPhee
"Tripling as a geology primer, an autobiography, and a panorama of the nation, bejeweled with splendid vignettes and set-pieces, "Annals of the Former World" offers a view of America like no other. . . . Yield to its geopoetry and have your eyes opened to a barely known aspect of the continent."--Roy Porter, "Los Angeles Times Book Review." A Pulitzer Prize-winning book. 25 maps.
About this book
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978."Most mountain ranges around the world are the result of compression, of segments of the earth's crust being brought together, bent, mashed, thrust and folded, squeezed up into the sky-- the Himalaya, the Appalachians, the Alps, the Urals, the Andes. The ranges of the Basin and Range came up another way, The crust-- in this region between the Rockies and the Sierra-- is spreading out, being stretched, being thinned, being literally pulled to pieces. The sites of Reno and Salt Lake City, on opposite sides of the province, have moved apart fifty miles. The crust of the Great Basin has broken into blocks... irregular in shape. They... suggest stretch marks. Which they are."
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the First Edition in New York, 1983. The hardcover is bound in brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine.
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- Title Annals of the Former World
- Author John McPhee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 720
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
- Date 2000-06-15
- Features Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780374518738 / 0374518734
- Weight 1.94 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.06 x 1.76 in (23.47 x 15.39 x 4.47 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Geology - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97039660
- Dewey Decimal Code 557.3
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- New York Times, 06/18/2000, Page 28
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