Annals of the Former World
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374105198 (0374105197)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Science,
Geology,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Geography
John McPhee could write a prose poem about a pebble. Oh, he has. Monumental in scope and decades in the making, it covers all the science, humanity, and history of geology in one grand gesture. Dense and delightful at the same time most of the huge book takes place in the time that encompasses th...