
In Suspect Terrain
From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana''s drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee''s In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern collision of ideas about the origi...
From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana''s drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee''s In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern collision of ideas about the origi...