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Sep 28, 2017 · In the grand cosmology of John McPhee, all the earth’s facts touch one another — all its regions, creatures and eras. Its absences and presences.
- Sam Anderson
The writer John McPhee, who popularised the term in the 1980s, argued – perhaps pessimistically – that human beings may not be capable of grasping the concept of deep time to its full extent.
- Tyler Malone
- The Factual Writer. Late last fall, John McPhee—one of the greatest living writers of what is commonly called “creative nonfiction”—released his thirty-third book, The Patch.
- The Structural Craftsman. John McPhee, in particular, borrows Ernest Hemingway’s affinity for distilled grandeur and Robert Frost’s understanding of the power of a pure image.
- The Patchwork Topographer. Best known for his Pulitzer-Prize-winning masterwork, Annals of the Former World, which collects four of his previous books on the geological history of North America (Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California) and adds a fifth (Crossing the Craton), John McPhee has gained a reputation among less discerning readers for being merely an outdoorsy “environmental writer,” a sort of latter-day Henry David Thoreau.
- The Excavation Specialist. Perhaps calling John McPhee’s body of work a “patchwork topography” is misleading though, as the word “topography” implies that he merely maps the surface of things.
Oct 31, 2016 · The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee.
Sep 9, 2014 · However, writer John McPhee officially coined the term in his 1981 book Basin and Range, saying: "Numbers do not seem to work well with regard to deep time. Any number above a couple...
- Helen Thompson
Aug 3, 2018 · By the mid-1900s, it was clear that Earth was about 4 billion years old, more than enough time for all of the geologic history we could envision. The term "deep time" was one of John McPhee's most powerful phrases in a very good book, Basin and Range, first published in 1981.
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John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction.
