In Suspect Terrain
by McPhee, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good Dustjacket
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Silver City, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others—a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern collision of ideas about the origins of the mountain range; and, in contrast, a century-old collision of ideas about the existence of the Ice Age. The central figure is Anita Harris, an internationally celebrated geologist who went into her profession to get out of a Brooklyn ghetto. The unifying theme is plate tectonics—here concentrating on the acceptance that all aspects of the theory do not universally enjoy. As such, In Suspect Terrain is a report from the rough spots at the front edge of a science.
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Desert Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 796
- Title
- In Suspect Terrain
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, Giroux; publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 210 pages
- Size
- 6in x 9in
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- terrain geology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Technology; Nature;
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