NY: Farrar,straus,giroux Pub. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. 1st Edition,2p; Second printing". HARDCOVER. 5x8". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S21.00UST JACKET..gift note endpaper "Damon...Did you know ...the tarot...devil represents Capricorn..Happy Birthday (W.) Tony". ; Gold spine titles on dark green cloth hard covers..Cross section Calif art to hard cover.DJ shows Calif as jig saw puzzle pieces.. ; Geological Time Chart Eps; 304pg pages; NICE UNCLIPT (S21.00) DUST JACKET Shows Jig Saw Puzzle CALIFORNIA MAP...."A Cross section of human & geological time.." .

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At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of the country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands. (Goodreads)

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Bookseller: Wonderful Books by Mail (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 125476
Title: ASSEMBLING CALIFORNIA
Author: McPhee, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition,2p; Second printing"
ISBN 10: 0374106452
ISBN 13: 9780374106454
Publisher: Farrar,straus,giroux Pub
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1993
Keywords: Essays, Nature, California, Geology, Plate Tectonics

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