Annals of the Former World
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| Author(s) | John McPhee |
| Subject(s) | Geology |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication date | 1998 |
| Pages | 696 |
| ISBN | 9780374105204 |
| OCLC Number | 37588534 |
| Dewey Decimal | 557.3 21 |
| LC Classification | QE77 .M38 1998 |
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[1] It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.[2]
The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978. It consists of a compilation of five books, the first four of which were previously published as Basin and Range (1981), In Suspect Terrain (1983), Rising from the Plains (1986), and Assembling California (1993), plus a final book, Crossing the Craton. A narrative table of contents provides an overview of the project, which largely consisted of a series of road journeys by McPhee across the North American continent in the company of noted geologists.
[edit] References
- ^ McPhee, John (1998). Annals of the Former World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374105200. http://books.google.com/books?id=AHIKHgAACAAJ&dq=%22Annals+of+the+Former+World%22.
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" (web). pulitzer.org. http://www.pulitzer.org/. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
[edit] External links
- Archived copy of Annals of the Former World, formerly on John McPhee's website
- New York Times Book Review, July 5, 1998
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