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Coming Into the Country

Coming Into the Country - Paperback

by John McPhee
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Availability:In StockContributor:John McPheePublish date:1991-04-01Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374522872ISBN-10:374522871UPC:9780374522872Book Category:NatureBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.20 x 5.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCW1HYY7XK

Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.

Readers of McPhee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene and ordering of events, brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining, the habits and legends of the barren-ground grizzly, the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief, and tales of the fortitude of settlers--ordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of America's notable literary craftsmen, singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374522872ISBN-10:374522871UPC:9780374522872Book Category:NatureBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.20 x 5.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCW1HYY7XK

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.


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