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Basin and Range
John McPhee
The first volume of McPhee's geology series, in which he drives across Nevada with a geologist and learns to see time in roadcuts. The book that taught a generation of readers to look at landscapes and see the forces that made them.
geology
Narrative Nonfiction
American Southwest
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
1905
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