Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years 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 traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Annals of the Former World
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years 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 traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years 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 traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
History of the English People
Author: John Richard Green
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368663755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368663755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
The Nations of the World: England
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Engineering
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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A Short History of the English People
Author: John Richard Green
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The World's Great Classics: A short history of the English people, by J.R. Green. History of civilization in Europe, by F.P.G. Guizot
Author: Timothy Dwight
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor.
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor.
The Vocabulary of East Anglia
Author: Robert Forby
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
Author: Royal Irish Academy (Dublin)
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Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Languages : en
Pages : 916
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
Author: Robert Browning
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198186717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"This volume presents poetry Browning wrote in his seventies, his last two books: Parleyings (1887) and Asolando (1889). Both volumes are presented here with previously unknown sources, a wealth of new contextual material, and many textual nuances clarified, giving a fresh view of the last phase of Browning's career. What emerges is a poet more seriously Christian, Protestant, and Liberal than previously supposed, more interested in Britain's destiny and Empire, more enmeshed in the local battles of the 1880s - and a writer of considerable range and wit." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198186717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"This volume presents poetry Browning wrote in his seventies, his last two books: Parleyings (1887) and Asolando (1889). Both volumes are presented here with previously unknown sources, a wealth of new contextual material, and many textual nuances clarified, giving a fresh view of the last phase of Browning's career. What emerges is a poet more seriously Christian, Protestant, and Liberal than previously supposed, more interested in Britain's destiny and Empire, more enmeshed in the local battles of the 1880s - and a writer of considerable range and wit." --Book Jacket.
Old Facts and Modern Incidents, Supplementary to Impressions of Germany
Author: Mary Sands Griffin
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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