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Rising from the Plains

Name: Rising from the Plains
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SKU: 9780374520656
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Contributors:

John McPhee

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Science, Nature

Book Subcategory:

Earth Sciences, Essays, Ecology

Book Topic:

Geology

Series:

Annals of the Former World #3

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Release Date:

1987-11-01

ISBN 13:

9780374520656

Weight:

0.5 lbs

Size:

8.20 x 5.50 x 0.50 inches

Pages:

208

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Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel--a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World.

About the Author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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