Assembling California
- ISBN-10
- 0374523932
- ISBN-13
- 9780374523930
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-02
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- John McPhee
Description
Drawing on his travels along the fault lines of the earth's shifting plates, the author discusses how a half dozen large pieces of country have drifted from far and near to coalesce as California.
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