John Mcphee Annals Of The Former World

McPhee, John: Assembling California, New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1993
ISBN: 0374106452 Fine

Cloth, gilt, 303 pp., illus.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket, with a small corner crease/front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. "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 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. / John McPhee is the author of twenty-six books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey." - Publisher. First Edition, First Printing Very Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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McPhee, John: BASIN AND RANGE, New York Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1981
ISBN: 0374109141 Near Fine

NON-FICTION: GEOLOGY: THE WEST: 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 216 pages. Endpapers are charts of Cenozoic era, the Mesozoic era, The Oaleozoic Era and Precambrian Time. John McPhee, (b.1931) has written a book of the history of the geologic time scale -- BASIN ANN RANGE, This was incorporated with other books into THE ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD -- which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. McPhee wrote an explanation fo non-geologists to explain what geology is all about. // Tiny bumping to spine ends and corners. Interior clean./ Dust Jacket has small bumping to spine ends and corners. In mylar protective cover. . No Edition Stated Near Fine Hard Cover

[SW: Non-Fiction, GEOLOGY, SCIENCE, Landscape, Pulitzer Prize, Topography. Explanations for Non-Geologists]

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McPhee, John: The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed, New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux; The Noonday Press 1992
ISBN: 0374516359 Fine

184 pp.; 21 cm. First published, 1973. AS NEW. "This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's successive progenitors. / John McPhee is the author of twenty-six books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey." - Publisher. Reprint Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: Airships, Airplanes]

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McPhee, John: Coming into the Country, New York Noonday Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1991
ISBN: 0374522871 Very Good

438 pp., maps; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean text. Light handling soil/foreedge. "Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush. Readers of McPhee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene and ordering of events, brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining, the habits and legends of the barren-ground grizzly, the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief, and tales of the fortitude of settlers-ordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of America's notable literary craftsmen, singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design. / John McPhee is the author of more than 25 books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey. McPhee's Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were both nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science." - Publisher. Reprint, 1998 Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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