Binding: Paperback
Description: The Pulitzer Prize - winning view of the continent across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago when John Mc Phee began his journeys back and forth across the United States he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and in the process come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the terrain it covers Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Title: Annals Of The Former World
Author(s): Mcphee John
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374518738
Pages: 696 Pages
Publication Date: 6/15/2000
Category: Historical Geology