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Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
5.0
Annals of the Former World is the most beautiful book about geology I've ever read.
In the first volume, McPhee hijacks the jargon of geology to help explain the impact of studying the discipline -- the new sense of "long" as a time period, for instance.
The third volume focuses on a geologist who works in Wyoming, and it shows the struggle that geologists have -- between wanting to better the human environment and wanting to understand and maintain the beauty of the natural environment.
In the first volume, McPhee hijacks the jargon of geology to help explain the impact of studying the discipline -- the new sense of "long" as a time period, for instance.
The third volume focuses on a geologist who works in Wyoming, and it shows the struggle that geologists have -- between wanting to better the human environment and wanting to understand and maintain the beauty of the natural environment.