Annals of the Former World

Name: Annals of the Former World
Author: John McPhee

by John McPhee

Geological narrative trace of North American landscapes and deep time

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John McPhee

American journalist and non-fiction writer who made the New Yorker essay into a vehicle for exhaustive, richly detailed explorations of subjects as various as geology, Alaska, and the citrus industry. Annals of the Former World won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the most patient and thorough of American literary journalists.

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