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Re:Industry, Ingenuity, and Fracture: On John McPhee by ableal on Saturday July 25, 2015 @05:13PM (#9949038)
"five-volume survey of the geological history of America"

(I don't have a point, I just like the phrase.)

Re:Industry, Ingenuity, and Fracture: On John McPhee by pholbrook on Saturday July 25, 2015 @10:14PM (#9949863)
Said book - Annals of the Former World - is only $5.99 in Kindle form at Amazon. It's far from my favorite work of McPhee's, but $5.99 is quite a bargain.

http://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee-ebook/...