Annals of the Former World by McPhee, John

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [0-374-10520-0] 1999. (Hardcover) 696pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, maps, illustrations, index. The covers are lightly edgeworn, there is a previous owner's bookplate on the first page, and the dust jacket is price-clipped. "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". Locale: North America; United States. (Natural History, Geography, Geology, Natural History).