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File Size: 3519 KB
Print Length: 716 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (June 15, 2000)
Publication Date: June 15, 2000
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English
ASIN: B005H0O8KQ
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Page-turning suspense, profound human interest, a remarkable narrative arc, and shocking violence. Subject: geology. I'm not kidding.I am a complete newbie to geology. But even if, like me, you don't know schist about the subject, you will enjoy this wonderful book. Other reviewers here have pointed out some outdated information or subjective emphases. Okay, but he's writing a narrative, not a textbook.Before charging off on this book -- which, BTW, is great value for money -- be sure you're familiar with Kindle's look-up feature. I used it literally dozens of times to get definitions of unfamiliar terms. What you get out of this book depends on the effort you put into it.
I've read McPhee's geology books all the way through twice now and plan to read them all again a few more times. I was an art major, so the science is all foreign territory to me, but you couldn't ask for a better guide. I loved learning about the reasons why the landscape is the way it is, about the ways geologists work and think, about their different histories, personalities, and views. Plus, having read about two-thirds of McPhee's whole oeuvre, the prose here is the best of the best (which, in my opinion, is always excellent and fun, anyway). The world looks different to me now, but not just now, but also deep into the past and the future. In any case, I definitely feel this is one of those books that ought to be on the shortlist of "must-reads" for everyone, just because it's such an amazing, mind-expanding adventure that also happens to a true story (albeit a story that's always under review and subject to amendment, in the way of all science).
I most enjoyed "Basin and Range" in this tetralogy of geological nonfiction, as that is also the physiography of the land where I live. John McPhee is your best guide and storyteller of our immense, vast, and deep continental history. I cannot properly review the work in a short space, but let me disclose a rather astounding little surprise of the book: While traveling through the Nevada desert at night, McPhee and his companion (a geological expert) witness a large hovering vessel--a vehicle looking very alien and extraterrestrial--fly and propel itself in the most unusual and technologically unique way (but too advanced and luminescent to be military, especially 35 years ago). The next morning the local paper had comments from a number of locals who also reported seeing it.The incident is described in less than a page, only a short aside in the progressive, westward description of the continent, numbering hundreds of pages on an otherwise unrelated subject (or is it?). But by this point, McPhee has already established his credibility with conscientious articulations about his subjects, as well as restrained and informed expressions of the Earth, so that this aside cannot be dismissed so easily. For me, it caused a tumbler to fall in my brain, which seems to have had cascading effects, to the point that I have re-assessed possibilities for such phenomena on Earth.Which ironically brings me full circle to McPhee's subject. If I accept McPhee's account (and I think I just might) it is impossible to not think of the time it must take to travel to Earth from distant origins. Even with incomprehensible technology, the time in travelling must have been immense. And the conclusion emerging from both McPhee's written descriptions, and the cracks in the rocks themselves, is the breath-taking sense of deep time. (Could it be that if visits have occurred, they were only by artificial life forms that can physically endure thousands or even millions of years? Would they have been created by organic life forms? Did they rule over them? But I digress.)The point is that reading McPhee's book and the study of geology give me the sense of how recently we have come along. How even the oldest of the rocks we see, the Precambrian gneiss or schist, could well have come a billion years after other rock planets had been left by those who sought to gather and collect rocks on other planets. If you visit the Grand Canyon you get to see rocks that go back almost half of the 4.5 billion years that span the age of our world. These are the real documents of our Earth's history. And maybe even reflections of eras that coincide with glorious ages of exploration by others in our universe. Maybe that brief blip about a possible alien encounter, in the middle of a lengthy and conscientiously-described account of the geological history of our land, is not so out of place.
As someone with a technical background but virtually no geology, this well written book is just a bit too much for me. I love the way McPhee writes and his descriptions are masterful. Still, the quantity of geologic periods and the terms that accompany them left me weary. Maybe I'm a visual learner and would need to take a geology class in the field where I could see just what he is talking about.
This is a collection of 5 previous books by this iconic Geologist/writer. Highly technical but for the reader who will stick with him, the best way to gain insights into global geologic history. A good refresher and teacher for geologists whose educations or experiences are dated. Keep a dictionary handy, but stick with it to become re-educated or refreshed in how the world got this way.
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