01022cam a2200277 4500 770731370 TxAuBib 20050823120000.0 980717s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374105204 $35.00 0374105200 $35.00 NjSoBT NjSoBT TxAuBib McPhee, John A. Annals of the former world [Book]. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1998] 695p : illus maps. Bklst 04/01/1998. LJ May 1998. PW 05/18/1998. Kirkus Apr 1998. NYT Bk 07/26/1998. A multilayered tale arranged in an organic succession of set pieces, flashbacks, biographical sketches, and human and lithic histories, explores North American geology, plate tectonics, and geologic time. 19990713. Eleanor Steele Blocher Endowment Fund. Geology United States.