R i s i n g F r o m T h e P l a i n s h a r d c o v e r -
by M c P h e e , J o h n
- Used
Description
Standard delivery: 6 to 14 days
On Sale!
More books like this are on sale from Terrace Horticultural Books at 20% off!
Details
- Title Rising From The Plains
- Author McPhee, John
- Binding H a r d c o v e r
- Edition F i r s t E d i t i o n
- Condition Used - F i n e e x c e p t O w n e r s N a m e A t F e p
- Pages P P . 2 1 3
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher F a r r a r , S t r a u s A n d G i r o u x P u b . , N e w Y o r k , New York
- Date
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5 1 9 9 2
- 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
About Terrace Horticultural Books Minnesota, United States
Terrace Horticultural Books is the largest seller of used and collectible books, periodicals and ephemera in the areas of gardening and natural history in the United States. On line we offer 29,000 items for sale on line. Our shop has this and more for sale including seed and plant catalogs, old seed packets, unframed art/ illustration and artifacts of gardening. Our shop is interesting and the grounds are maintained through sustainable gardening practices. We are entering our 33rd year of service to our customers. Please contact Kent Petterson at 651-222-5536 for more information.
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.
