Rising from the Plains [Paperback]

Rising from the Plainsis John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. FollowingBasin and RangeandIn Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallela series gathering under the overall titleAnnals of the Former World.

Mr. McPhee has created a style--blending detailed reporting with a novelistic sense of narrative--and a standard that have influenced a whole generation of journalists. Timothy Bay, The Baltimore Sun

McPhee rides shotgun across Wyoming in a four-wheel-drive Bronco while the geologist David Love steers, lectures, and reminisces....This instructive account of the geologic West and the frontier West is a delight. Evan S. Connell, The New York Times Book Review

John McPheewas born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began atTimemagazine and led to his long association withThe 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, includingOranges(1967),Coming into the Country(1977),The Control of Nature(1989),The Founding Fish(2002),Uncommon Carriers(2007), andSilk Parachute(2011).Encounters with the Archdruid(1972) andThe 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 forAnnals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.