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John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years
Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World.
Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction.
Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
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a grand journey across america. 超喜欢的mcphee啊，主要是不光文字好，而且recognize geology这个行业。给四星是因为太沉了……………………
评分天下大陆，合久必分，分久必合，沧海烧成桑田，桑田化作山川…地质届对时间的使用，误差都是±一百万年，够人类从鱼进化到猿的。刘禹锡站在西塞山头感叹“人世几回伤往事，山形依旧枕寒流”，放在地球史的维度也可以忽略不计了，山形也不是一定一直枕着寒流。没基础还是不要看了。地质学名词既多，北美地形地名也陌生，完全被牵着鼻子走得一头雾水，雪上加霜的是作者行文跳脱，闲笔也出的莫名其妙。若不是三年前开了个头耿耿于怀早就弃了。
评分a grand journey across america. 超喜欢的mcphee啊，主要是不光文字好，而且recognize geology这个行业。给四星是因为太沉了……………………
评分2020补，五章读了三章的大部头，有机会再慢慢看吧
评分天下大陆，合久必分，分久必合，沧海烧成桑田，桑田化作山川…地质届对时间的使用，误差都是±一百万年，够人类从鱼进化到猿的。刘禹锡站在西塞山头感叹“人世几回伤往事，山形依旧枕寒流”，放在地球史的维度也可以忽略不计了，山形也不是一定一直枕着寒流。没基础还是不要看了。地质学名词既多，北美地形地名也陌生，完全被牵着鼻子走得一头雾水，雪上加霜的是作者行文跳脱，闲笔也出的莫名其妙。若不是三年前开了个头耿耿于怀早就弃了。
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