{"product_id":"annals-of-the-former-world","title":"Annals of the Former World","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAnnals of the Former World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn McPhee\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374105204\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e704\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eTwenty 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. Like the terrain it covers, \"Annals of the Former World\" tells a many-layered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it, guided by twenty-five new maps and the \"Narrative Table of Contents\" (an essay outlining the history and structure of the project). Read sequentially, the book is an organic succession of set pieces, flashbacks, biographical sketches, and histories of the human and lithic kind; approached systematically, it can be a North American geology primer, an exploration of plate tectonics, or a study of geologic time and the development of the time scale.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Annals of the Former World | John McPhee | Hardcover | 9780374105204 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks G 1766674","offer_id":49376948060312,"sku":"1766674","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71gyEPu-FvL.jpg?v=1783023605","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/annals-of-the-former-world","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}