To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpanes, and the earth is alive-a work in progress. The cataclysmic movement that gives birth to mountains and oceans is ongoing and can still be seen at certain places on our planet. One of these is the Basin and Range region centered in Nevada and Utah. In this first book of a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, the author crosses the spectacular Basin and Range with geology professor Kenneth Deffeyes in tow. McPhee draws on Deffeyes' expertise to dazzle you with the vast perspective of geologic time and the fascinating history of vanished landscapes. The effect is guaranteed to expand your mind. McPhee's enthusiasm is infectious, as he provides one of the best introductions to plate tectonics and the New Geology. His elegant style is more pleasing than ever with narrator Nelson Runger's smooth, enthusiastic delivery. Runger mines the book's rich veins of poetic prose and subtle humor-and the result is pure gold.
Encounters with the Archdruid
John McPhee
audiobookThe Pine Barrens
John McPhee
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John McPhee
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John McPhee
audiobookSilk Parachute
John McPhee
audiobookDraft No. 4
John McPhee
audiobookThe Crofter and the Laird
John McPhee
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John McPhee
bookAssembling California
John McPhee
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John McPhee
audiobookUncommon Carriers
John McPhee
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John McPhee
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Monasticism
Stephen J. Davis
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Jason Rosenhouse
audiobookThe Classical World
Robin Lane Fox
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Andrew Kahn
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Judith Hanson Lasater
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C. S. Lewis
audiobookThe Games : A Global History of the Olympics
David Goldblatt
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Helge Kragh
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Ian Bogost
audiobookThe Shortest History of China
Linda Jaivin
audiobookBad Science
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John Zubrzycki
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