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bobbo49's review
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Third book in the series, traversing Wyoming, coming out of the plains and into the mountains. McPhee's mix of contemporary travel and social/geologic history is, as always, interesting, dramatic, and informative. Having read (out of order) #4, Assembling California, I am ready for the final volume, Annals of the Former World!
jodiboe's review
4.0
Picked this book up at a used bookstore in Whitefish, MT on a ski trip. So glad I did. Although I didn't understand a lot of the terminology or concepts related to the geology referred to in the book, I thoroughly enjoyed its intertwining of science and history. Altogether this was incredibly interesting read and I cannot wait to drive through Wyoming once again and take a look at the landscape through a new lens thanks to the perspective gained from this read.
danjewett's review
5.0
As I move closer to the end of the dizzyingly quick years allotted for a lifetime on this planet, it is comforting to let McPhee’s exquisite storytelling place that lifetime in a context comprised of millions and millions of years of slowness.
ben_todd7's review
3.0
Solid geology. Story is a little all over the place and it was hard for me to get into the story.
mjfmjfmjf's review
3.0
Book 3 of this series I am slowly making my way through. This one was a mixed bag, which is what I expect. The geology is hard to follow but intriguing. The history of one geologist in Wyoming and hist family was fascinating. Maybe I like westerns more than I think I do. And then we were back to talking geology - hot spots and the some mining and my brain turned off and every page took forever to read. But the other parts of the book definitely made up for the end parts. Pretty writing as always.