Rising From the Plains by John McPhee [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK]

Rising From the Plains by John McPhee [Annals of the Former World #3] FIRST EDITION TRADE PAPERBACK [1986] FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX Softcover first edition w/ decorative endpapers.  Cover is in excellent shape and looks good as new; pages read nicely w some wear.  Spot stain to text block [see photos] Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction.  This is about high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. I raise that semaphore here at the start so no one will feel misled by an opening passage in which a slim young woman who is not in any sense a geologist steps down from a train in Rawlins, Wyoming, in order to go north by stagecoach into country that was still very much the Old West.So begins John McPhee's Rising from the Plains. If you like to read about geology, you will find good reading here. If, on the other hand, you are not much engaged by the spatial complexities of the science, you could miss a richness of human history that has its place among the strat