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Oil Notes
Rick Bass
Rick Bass's early memoir of working as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi — before Montana, before the Yaak, before he became an environmental writer. The irony of a future conservationist hunting for oil is never stated but always present.
Culture & Place
geology
Memoir
Rocky Mountains
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Published
1989
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