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The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth... read more

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The poles of the earth have wandered.

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  1. John McPhee (Author)

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Publication Date: 1981
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