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.
Author: John McPhee
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 01/01/1984
Series: Annals of the Former World #2
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.48w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780374517946
Language: English
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