Volume 28, Number 8 · May 14, 1981
Deep Time and Ceaseless Motion
By Stephen Jay Gould
Basin and Range
by John McPhee
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 216 pp., $10.95
The Earth Generated and Anatomized
by William Hobbs, edited by Roy Porter
Cornell University Press, 168 pp., $35.00
I read Basin and Range, John McPhee's celebration of geology, during a long plane ride from Portland to Boston. I am not a morning person, but I managed to reach the airport long before the flight (and almost before dawn) to secure a 'geologist's seat'—by the window, before the wing and on the left side—all for a view of Mt. St. Helens. I was not disappointed.
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