New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Second Printing. Cloth. 0374250820 . A second printing in Very Good condition with some aging and fading to the boards in an alike dust-jacket with scuffing and some soiling to the rear; About high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. A story about a Wyoming ranch and the geologist who grew up there; 8vo; 213 pages .

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Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain , it continues to present a cross-section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the century, and of the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea. While Rising from the Plains is a portrayal of extraordinary people, it is also a history of the landscape around them, where, with remarkable rapidity, mountains came up out of the flat terrain. Gradually, the mountains were buried, until only the higher peaks remained above a vast plain. Recently, they have been exhumed, and they stand now as the Rockies. -Description from First Edition (1986 Dust Jacket)

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Bookseller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 40519
Title: Rising From the Plains
Author: McPhee, John
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374250820
ISBN 13: 9780374250829
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1986
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print

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