Basin and Range
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0374516901
- ISBN 13
- 9780374516901
- Seller
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Usa: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Good+. 1981. Third Printing. Paperback. 0374516901 . Good paperback with tight binding and clean pages. Minimal wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. Spine is sun faded but the text is still legible. One very small tear along the bottom of the front fly page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages .
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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- Bookseller
- Courtney McElvogue Crafts & Vintage Finds (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1161
- Title
- Basin and Range
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374516901
- ISBN 13
- 9780374516901
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- Usa
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0374516901, Geology, Western United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geology & Volcanoes;
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