Rising from the Plains
Autor John McPheeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 1987
Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World.
Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World.
Preț: 106.12 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 159
Preț estimativ în valută:
20.31€ • 21.07$ • 16.97£
20.31€ • 21.07$ • 16.97£
Carte indisponibilă temporar
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780374520656
ISBN-10: 0374520658
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 137 x 206 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10: 0374520658
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 137 x 206 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Notă biografică
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. The same year he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with FSG, and soon followed with The Headmaster (1966), Oranges (1967), The Pine Barrens (1968), A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles (collection, 1969), The Crofter and the Laird (1969), Levels of the Game (1970), Encounters with the Archdruid (1972), The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (1973), The Curve of Binding Energy (1974), Pieces of the Frame (collection, 1975), and The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975). Both Encounters with the Archdruid and The Curve of Binding Energy were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.
Descriere
Bestselling author McPhee takes us on another exciting geological excursion with this engaging account of life--past and present--in the high plains of Wyoming.