In Suspect Terrain
by John McPhee
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374517940
- ISBN 13
- 9780374517946
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About This Item
"In Suspect Terrain" by John McPhee. Paperback Sixth Printing 1988 published in New York by Farrar Straus Giroux. 210pp. The "Delaware Water Gap" (1859) by George Innes is pictured on the front cover. Fine condition.
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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- Charlie's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16737
- Title
- In Suspect Terrain
- Author
- John McPhee
- Format/Binding
- Soft-Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374517940
- ISBN 13
- 9780374517946
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 210
- Keywords
- Earth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geology;
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