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Annals Of The Former World Paperback - 1999

by McPhee, John


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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 McPhee, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 8th Print
  • Pages 695 pages. pages.
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus And Giroux, New York
  • Date 1999-01
  • ISBN 9780965174015
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