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Annals of the Former World on Tape
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Annals of the Former World
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Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross-section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structural arrangement of the work never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Approached sequentially, it is a succession of set pieces, flashbacks, biographical sketches, and histories of the human and lithic kind; approached systematically it is a study of geological time. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology, and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction writing. Selections approved by author.
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- Published:
2000
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
A004881
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Science
Environment
Science
Scientists
Biography
Scientists
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