New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1983), 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in the publisher's brown cloth covered boards, gilt to the spine in a lovely pc. pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 210 pp. A master of the non-fiction genre, McPhee's ease with his subject matter lures the reader into eager par ticipation.

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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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Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collection Library (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19762
Title: IN SUSPECT TERRAIN
Author: McPhee, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1983)
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: FIRST EDITION .
Bookseller catalogs: Electronic List TBCL; McPhee, John;

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