Rising from the Plains - (Annals of the Former World) by John McPhee (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Rising from the Plains </i>is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following <i>Basin and Range</i> and <i>In Suspect Terrain</i>, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel--a series gathering under the overall title <i>Annals of the Former World</i>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Mr. McPhee has created a style--blending detailed reporting with a novelistic sense of narrative--and a standard that have influenced a whole generation of journalists." --<i>Timothy Bay, The Baltimore Sun</i> <p/>"McPhee rides shotgun across Wyoming in a four-wheel-drive Bronco while the geologist David Love steers, lectures, and reminisces....This instructive account of the geologic West and the frontier West is a delight." --<i>Evan S. Connell, The New York Times Book Review</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>John McPhee</b> was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at <i>Time</i> magazine and led to his long association with <i>The New Yorker</i>, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, <i>A Sense of Where You Are</i>, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including <i>Oranges</i> (1967), <i>Coming into the Country</i> (1977), <i>The Control of Nature</i> (1989), <i>The Founding Fish</i> (2002), <i>Uncommon Carriers</i> (2007), and <i>Silk Parachute</i> (2011). <i>Encounters with the Archdruid</i> (1972) and <i>The Curve of Binding Energy</i> (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for <i>Annals of the Former World</i>. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.</p>
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