Annals of the Former World
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and attended Princeton and Cambridge Universities. His writing career began at Time magazine and continued with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. McPhee received the Academy of Arts and Letters' Award in Literature in 1977. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World in 1999.
When John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States twenty years ago, he intended to describe a cross section of North America at about the forty-first parallel and, in the process, gain an understanding not only of the science but also of the geologists he traveled with. The book's structure remained constant, but its scope required him to finish it in stages under the overall title Annals of the Former World.
Annals of the Former World, like the terrain it covers, tells a multilayered story, and the reader can take one of many paths through it. This is our best popular survey of geology and a modern nonfiction masterpiece, written as clearly and succinctly as it is profoundly informed. The Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction was awarded to Annals of the Former World in 1999.
Author: John McPhee
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