books.google.ca - The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion yearsTwenty 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 parallel and, in...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Annals_of_the_Former_World.html?id=GS81F0RNxesC&q=ranch&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAnnals of the Former World
