How the Mountains Grew

The incredible story of the creation of a continent—our continent— from the acclaimed author of  The Last Volcano  and  Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives—and the entirety of human history—are mere nanoseconds on this timescale.  Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on.  From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the histor