Rising From the Plains Hardcover - 1986
by McPhee, John
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- Title Rising From the Plains
- Author McPhee, John
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrer, Straus, Giroux, New York
- Date 1986
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 48547
- ISBN 9780374250829 / 0374250820
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.55 x 5.89 x 0.89 in (21.72 x 14.96 x 2.26 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Geology - History, Geology - Rocky Mountains
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86014891
- Dewey Decimal Code 557.8
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About this book
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)
First Edition Identification
Farrar, Straus & Giroux published a First Edition hardcover in New York, 1986.
