Oil Notes

by: Rick Bass

Author: Rick Bass

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 26 April 2012

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ISBN: 0803240406 ISBN 13: 9780803240407

Oil Notes by Rick Bass

Bass's essays and notes offer fascinating insights into the oil industry. Top page

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Oil Notes is about the excitement of the earth below us, the passing of time, and oil: where it is trapped, how it is discovered, and its gradual disappearance. Writing in the form of a journal, Rick Bass brings a lyric imagination to the oil geologist's craft, measuring people's short lives and relationships against the seemingly immutable history of the earth, showing mountains and forests that do not move while we are free to race across them, living our lives in the ultimate freedom of speed. To dig for oil is a way to dig deep into human experience, a kind of subterranean exploration of self. And nothing escapes this writer's eye or imagination. In lean, considered prose, Bass's essays and notes offer fascinating insights into the oil industry while skillfully painting the picture of a young man on the verge of adulthood. Oil Notes successfully conveys the excitement of possibility a stimulating career, the pursuit of a wonderful woman, the beautiful mystery of the earth that so addresses and captivates us in our own lives. Bass provides a new introduction for this edition reflecting how much and how little has changed since his youth in the oil industry. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: University of Nebraska Press

City: Lincoln

Pages: 192

More info: height 215 mm width 141 mm weight 240 gr thickness 12 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 622.3382092 Library of Congress Subject: Oil well drilling

Departments: Petroleum technology; Economic geology;

Record updated at: 07 May, 2013 time: 14:24

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