New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Printing. Hardcover. "In Suspect Terrain is a composite of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world." Ships same or next business day. Dust jacket has edge and shelf wear, very slight tanning on the inside near the edges. The paste-down endpaper has a line of discoloration from top to bottom, free endpaper has a small red mark, spine is slightly skewed. Text is clean, tight and bright, book is in almost like new condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 210 pages .

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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: Good Books In The Woods (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 42966
Title: In Suspect Terrain
Author: McPhee, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Printing
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1983

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