1993

The Meadow

James Galvin

A hundred years of one meadow on the Wyoming-Colorado line, at ten thousand feet, told out of order. Author James Galvin owned part of it and knew the people who worked it, chiefly Lyle Van Waning, a man who built…

Assembling California

John McPhee

McPhee’s California book, and the fourth of the Annals volumes. He drove I-80 across the state with Eldridge Moores, a Davis geologist who read ancient seafloor for a living, and the story they told is that California isn’t one place.…