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Rising from the Plains

John McPhee

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#2307 of 3,809 books · #235 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1987).

Rising from the Plains won the Pulitzer Prize. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the twentieth century, and of David Love, the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13
9780374708504
Topics
Geology of North AmericaWyoming ranch lifeDavid Love biography

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