John McPhee沒聽過吧。他是美國著名專欄作家，比如在紐約客寫廣受歡迎的專欄。
常常是介紹當代美國作家時，必受推薦的，著作等身。
他的名作之一Oranges，一本文集，書林有賣。那是1976年以前的作品。跟地質無關。
不過之後，McPhee先生不知道哪根筋不對勁，開始著迷於地質
跟著地質學家跑遍美洲大陸，探索盆地與山脈的故事
Rising from the Plains是台大圖書館唯一購買的他的作品
是QE地質類書專櫃中唯一的文學書！
書裡充滿了美西地質的學問與追索地質學問的人的故事
二十多年來他寫了四、五本地質故事書
集結成Annals of the former world鉅作，獲1999年普立茲獎。
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作者: leuco (流客) 看板: EarthScience
標題: John McPhee的書也值得注意：補充
時間: Mon Apr 16 22:58:24 2001
對John McPhee的補充說明：
下列是Amazon.com的編輯對他的介紹
In 1978 New Yorker magazine staff writer John McPhee set out
making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history
of North America, centered, for the sake of convenience, on
the 40th parallel, a history that encompasses billions of years.
In 1981 he published the first of the four books that would come
from his research: Basin and Range, a study of the mountainous
lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas. Two years later
came In Suspect Terrain, a grand overview of the Appalachian mountain
system. In 1986 McPhee released Rising from the Plains, a history of
the Rocky Mountains set largely in Wyoming. And in 1993 came Assembling
California, a survey of the area geologists find to be a laboratory of
volcanic and tectonic processes, a place where geology can be watched
in the making. Annals of the Former World gathers these four volumes,
which McPhee always conceived of as a whole, to make that epic of the
Earth's formation; to it he adds a fifth book, Crossing the Craton,
which introduces the continent's ancient core, underlying what is now
Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska.
McPhee's great virtue as a journalist covering the sciences--and any
other of the countless subjects he has taken on, for that matter--is
his ability to distill and explain complex matters: here, for example,
the processes of mineral deposition or of plate tectonics. He does so
by allowing geologists to speak for themselves and an entertaining lot
they are, those sometimes odd men and women who puzzle out the landscape
for clues to its most ancient past. Annals of the Former World is a
magisterial work of popular science for which geologists--and devotees
of good writing--will be grateful. --Gregory McNamee