Annals of the Former World by McPhee

Annals of the Former World McPhee ebook
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page: 696
ISBN: 9780374518738
Format: pdf

In the first days of my “awakening” to climate change, peak oil and what have you, I fed on McPhee's Annals of the Former World, like Henry, swallowing all 712 pages whole in the matter of a week. It's not as organized for a trip as Roadside Geology (and it's 42,000 pages) but it is a really good introduciton to selected parts of American geology. The Professor, before the gates of Moscow, when the Germans finally hesitated and began to fall back. Another book that might be helpful is McPhee's Annals of the Former World. I close my eyes and watch my thoughts in silence. The last book you recommended for me “Annals Of The Former World” was a top read, so I guess you have enthused me to go get a copy of Joyce. I have been a fan of John McPhee since I read The Curve of Binding Energy many years ago. In fact I recommend the entire series entitled "Annals Of the Former World," but "Assembling California" should help you undertand what's happening in your neck of the woods. In 1999 he won the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction for Annals of the Former World. I first heard about diamond pipes in John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain, part of his Annals of the Former World geology books. In Annals of the Former World, John McPhee, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote “The roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads imagination into the earth and through the surrounding terrane. I had assumed diamonds were formed slowly, deep in the earth. I have never before been this excited about a geology book.