Assembling California (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John McPhee
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Nature, California, West, U.S., Disasters, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Pacific Northwest, Earth, Mountains, Geology or geologists, Minerals or mineral resources, Rocks, Earth sciences
Assembling California is the final book in John McPhee’s geological tetralogy, Annals of the Former World. “Assembling” refers coyly to the two-decade-old theory of plate tectonics, which the three preceding books (Basin and Range, 1980; In Suspect Terrain, 1982; and Rising from the Plains, 1986) explained for those readers who survived the exposure to thick geological nomenclature. Tectonic geologists have embraced McPhee as one of their own, given his immersion in the topic and skill at discussing it. He dedicates Assembling California...
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