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In Suspect Terrain
by McPhee, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair to Good (in mylar)
- ISBN 10
- 0374176507
- ISBN 13
- 9780374176501
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. Illustrated end papers, textblock is clean and tight. Moisture soiled covers, bumped head and foot of spine, bumped corners. Price-clipped dust jacket, moisture rippled and creasedhead and foot of spine and back cover, rubbing to the corners, usual shelf worn edges. 210pp.. First Printing. Cloth. Good/Fair to Good (in mylar). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB16313
- Title
- In Suspect Terrain
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374176507
- ISBN 13
- 9780374176501
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Geological Studies, Geology, Northeastern States Geology, United States Geological Survey
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geology; Natural History & Nature;
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