This is a multi-layered tale from Pulitzer Prize winning author John McPhee of his journeys across the 40th parallel of the United States with a team of geologists. Part travelogue, part scientific thesis, The Annals of the Former World breaks new ground in autobiographical storytelling as McPhee traverses the US and comes to a better understanding of not only the people of science he travelled with, but the people of the land as well. Poetic and brilliantly realized, this is the art of non-fiction at its finest.
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