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Where the Sea Used to Be
Rick Bass
Bass's novel about oil exploration in Montana — the search for ancient seas buried beneath the mountains. Dense, geological, and animated by the tension between extraction and preservation.
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Mountains & Climbing
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Rocky Mountains
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Published
1998
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