Another McPhee book and another snippit of wisdom about the world. The is a collection of short and not so short stories loosely connected. Sometimes very loosely. But interesting none the same. Geology ties some of these tales such as in the use of gravel and geological zones to help solve the Coors murder in Colorado and to discover Plymouth Rock came from what is now part of Africa. Along the way we learn that the rock that many consider the beginnings of european settlement of North America is actually in multiple pieces and probably wasn't used by the Pilgrims for landing.
Two auto related stories tell of an exotic car auction and what happens to the mountains of tires that get discarded each year. We learn of the voice recognition software with a blind English professor and a truly virgin tract of forest.
The title story is about cattle rustling and a brand inspector in Nevada. And McPhee is at his descriptive best in all of the stories.
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