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The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, "Basin and Range" is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges that are green with junipers and often white with snow. The terrain becomes the setting for a lyrical evocation of the science of geology, with important digressions into the plate-tectonics revolution and the history of the geologic time scale.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux published a First Edition hardcover in New York, 1981.
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- Title Basin and Range
- Author John McPhee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
- Date 1982-04
- ISBN 9780374516901 / 0374516901
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Plains
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 80028679
- Dewey Decimal Code 557
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