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From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold "In Suspect Terrain "is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others--a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern collision of ideas about the origins of the mountain range; and, in contrast, a century-old collision of ideas about the existence of the Ice Age. The central figure is Anita Harris, an internationally celebrated geologist who went into her profession to get out of a Brooklyn ghetto. The unifying theme is plate tectonics--here concentrating on the acceptance that all aspects of the theory do not universally enjoy. As such, "In Suspect Terrain "is a report from the rough spots at the front edge of a science.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Natural history

• Full title: In Suspect Terrain
• Author: John McPhee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780374517946
• ISBN: 0374517940
• ID: 10985446
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Weight: 249 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 1991

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