Annals of the Former World.

MCPHEE, John.

$225.00

Item Number: 145124

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, Original black cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Maps by Allan Cartography. Endpapers designed by Tom Funk. Jacket art by John Clerk.

Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United states, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he travelled with. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology, and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction writing.