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(0)John A McPhee
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1981
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the most valuable tools for the advancement of geological science has in fact been the humble road cut. United States Interstate 80 crosses the entire North American continent, in the process exposing hundreds of millions of years of geological history. In Basin and Range, McPhee, accompanied at times by Princeton geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes, demonstrates how the contorted and tilted rocks seen in these road cuts reveal how islands of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
695 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Studies the history of plate tectonics in the United States in five different regions, including Utah to eastern California, Brooklyn to Indiana, Wyoming, Sierra Nevada and the Great Central Valley, and the midcontinent.
Author
Publisher
Noonday Press
Pub. Date
1992, c1986
Physical Desc
213 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blending history and geology, this narrative examines the influence of early surroundings on a geologist's choice of field and specialty and vividly describes the terrain of the Wyoming plains.
Author
Publisher
Noonday Press
Pub. Date
1991, c1977
Physical Desc
438 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An account of a kayak and canoe journey through the Brooks Range wilderness, impressions of urban life and political activity, and portraits of people in the bush make up a study of contemporary Alaska.
5) Outcroppings
Author
Publisher
Peregrine Smith Books
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
xi, 130 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A combination of McPhee's writing and Till's landscape photographs heighten the vision and understanding of the West.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
John McPhee's account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her - stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters.