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IN SUSPECT TERRAIN

IN SUSPECT TERRAIN

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IN SUSPECT TERRAIN

by McPhee, John

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ISBN 10
0374176507
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9780374176501
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New York: Farrar * Straus * Giroux, 1983. First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo, light brown cloth, Mylar-protected dust jacket with colored painting of the "Delaware Water Gap" by George Innes (1859), colored geological era charts for endpapers, [210] pages. The author"s sixteenth book and the second in his geological series of books. McPhee draws on the expertise of an internally-known geologist, Anita Harris, to explain in four sections a fascinating tale of geology. He includes a biography of Harris, plus an examination of an Appalachian landscape that illustrates human history in conflict with the ice age. His journeys with Anita Harris in ancient lands are juxtaposed with travels in the modern world. Book is in exceptional condition internally and externally (though there is a minute discoloration to the upper edge of the dust jacket).

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 (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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