IN SUSPECT TERRAIN
by McPhee, John
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374176507
- ISBN 13
- 9780374176501
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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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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 789
- Title
- IN SUSPECT TERRAIN
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374176507
- ISBN 13
- 9780374176501
- Publisher
- Farrar * Straus * Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- New York, New Jersey, Indiana Dunes, Appalachia, geology, fieldwork, Delaware, New Jersey
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