false 40 77 0374522596 9780374522599 76 <![CDATA[The Control of Nature]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876224m/77.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876224s/77.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77.The_Control_of_Nature 4.22 569 The Control of Nature he turns his attention once more to geology and the human struggle against nature. In one sketch, he explores the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' unrealized plan to divert the flow of the Mississippi River into a tributary, the Atchafalaya, for flood control; in another, he looks at the ingenious ways in which an Icelandic engineer saved a southern harbor on that island from being destroyed by a lava flow; in a third, he examines a complex scheme to protect Los Angeles from boulders ejected from mountains by compression and tectonic movement. As always, McPhee combines a deep knowledge of his subject with a narrative approach that is wholly accessible; you may not have thought you were interested in earthquakes and flood control, but he gently leads you to take a passionate concern in such matters. ]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1989 79 0374522871 9780374522872 58 <![CDATA[Coming into the Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876225m/79.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876225s/79.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79.Coming_into_the_Country 4.14 493 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.
]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1976 54976 0374514313 9780374514310 62 <![CDATA[Encounters with the Archdruid]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445915m/54976.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445915s/54976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54976.Encounters_with_the_Archdruid 4.11 499 Brower was in the thick of battle when John McPhee profiled him for the New Yorker in a piece that would evolve into Encounters with the Archdruid. McPhee follows Brower into unusually close combat as Brower faces down a geologist who is, it seems, convinced that there is no sight quite so elevating as that of a fully operational mine; a developer who (successfully, it turned out) sought to convert an isolated stretch of the Carolina coast into a resort for the moneyed few--and who provided the title for McPhee's book, wryly opining that conservationists are at heart druids who "sacrifice people and worship trees"; and, most formidable of all, former Interior Secretary Floyd Dominy, who oversaw the construction of a structure that for Brower stands as one of the most hated creations of our time, Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. McPhee offers up an engaging portrait of Brower, a man unafraid of a good fight in the service of the earth, making Encounters an important contribution to the history of the modern environmental movement. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1971 54983 0141182032 9780141182032 44 <![CDATA[Oranges]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445932m/54983.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445932s/54983.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54983.Oranges 4.11 304 Oranges was conceived as a short magazine piece, but thanks to his unparalleled investigative skills, became a slim, fact-filled book. As McPhee chronicles orange farmers struggling with frost and horticulturists' new breeds of citrus, oranges come to seem a microcosm of man's relationship with nature.

Like Flemish miniaturists who reveal the essence of humankind within the confines of a tiny frame, McPhee once again demonstrates that the smallest topic is replete with history, significance, and consequence.

]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1967 19894 0374516901 9780374516901 40 <![CDATA[Basin and Range]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290275m/19894.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290275s/19894.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19894.Basin_and_Range 4.07 352 Basin and Range, McPhee, accompanied at times by Princeton geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes, demonstrates how the contorted and tilted rocks seen in these road cuts reveal how islands of the earth's crust have floated across the earth's surface, crashing and folding to form basin and range. This is a masterful and sometimes even poetic volume of popular writing about plate tectonics, communicating the profound satisfaction of using scientific research as a tool for understanding the world around us.

This is the first of four books on North American geology by McPhee, collectively entitled Annals of the Former World. The other volumes are In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California.

]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1981 78 0374518734 9780374518738 57 <![CDATA[Annals of the Former World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876224m/78.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876224s/78.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78.Annals_of_the_Former_World 4.41 308 New Yorker magazine staff writer John McPhee set out making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history of North America, centered, for the sake of convenience, on the 40th parallel, a history that encompasses billions of years. In 1981 he published the first of the four books that would come from his research: Basin and Range, a study of the mountainous lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas. Two years later came In Suspect Terrain, a grand overview of the Appalachian mountain system. In 1986 McPhee released Rising from the Plains, a history of the Rocky Mountains set largely in Wyoming. And in 1993 came Assembling California, a survey of the area geologists find to be a laboratory of volcanic and tectonic processes, a place where geology can be watched in the making. Annals of the Former World gathers these four volumes, which McPhee always conceived of as a whole, to make that epic of the Earth's formation; to it he adds a fifth book, Crossing the Craton, which introduces the continent's ancient core, underlying what is now Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska.

McPhee's great virtue as a journalist covering the sciences--and any other of the countless subjects he has taken on, for that matter--is his ability to distill and explain complex matters: here, for example, the processes of mineral deposition or of plate tectonics. He does so by allowing geologists to speak for themselves and an entertaining lot they are, those sometimes odd men and women who puzzle out the landscape for clues to its most ancient past. Annals of the Former World is a magisterial work of popular science for which geologists--and devotees of good writing--will be grateful. --Gregory McNamee

]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1983 821355 0374514429 9780374514426 25 <![CDATA[The Pine Barrens]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178679388m/821355.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178679388s/821355.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821355.The_Pine_Barrens 4.10 302 40 4.10 5853 701 1967 75 0374280398 9780374280390 74 <![CDATA[Uncommon Carriers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876224m/75.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876224s/75.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75.Uncommon_Carriers 3.84 316 What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation. </div><div>
</div></div><div>Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot,
eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the “tight-assed” Illinois River on a
“towboat” pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being “a good deal longer than the Titanic.” And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John,
in a homemade skiff in 1839.</div><div>
Uncommon Carriers is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author’s warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.</div></div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 2005 19898 0374523932 9780374523930 20 <![CDATA[Assembling California]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290277m/19898.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290277s/19898.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19898.Assembling_California 4.10 230 40 4.10 5853 701 1992 83 0374520658 9780374520656 16 <![CDATA[Rising from the Plains]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876226m/83.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876226s/83.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83.Rising_from_the_Plains 4.24 178 Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1987 789349 0374523193 9780374523190 16 <![CDATA[Looking for a Ship]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178370414m/789349.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178370414s/789349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/789349.Looking_for_a_Ship 4.17 159
With John McPhee along, Chase finds a job as a second mate aboard the S.S. Stella Lykes, captained by the extraordinary Paul McHenry Washburn. The journey takes them on a forty-two day run down the Pacific coast of South America, with stops to unload and pick up freight at such ports as Cartagena, Valparaiso, Balboa, Lima, and Guayaquil—an area notorious for pirates. As the crew make their ocean voyage, they tell sea stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage. Through the journey itself and the tales told emerge the history and character of a fascinating calling.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1990 243707 0374526893 9780374526894 12 <![CDATA[A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173068083m/243707.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173068083s/243707.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243707.A_Sense_of_Where_You_Are_Bill_Bradley_at_Princeton 4.04 156 A Sense of Where You Are is the literary equivalent of a harmonic convergence, a remarkable confluence of two talents--John McPhee and Bill Bradley--at the beginning of what would prove to be long and distinguished careers. While McPhee would blossom into one of the best nonfiction writers of the last 35 years, Bradley segued from an all-American basketball player at Princeton, to Rhodes Scholar, to NBA star, to three terms in the U.S. Senate. McPhee noticed greatness in Bradley from the start; the book is an extension of a lengthy magazine profile McPhee wrote early in Bradley's senior year; the title comes from Bradley always knowing his position in relation to the basket. What's so noteworthy about the book is the greatness it promised--both for writer and for subject, a greatness both have delivered through the years again and again. ]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1965 290588 0374528837 9780374528836 20 <![CDATA[The Founding Fish]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454515m/290588.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454515s/290588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290588.The_Founding_Fish 3.72 151
McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 2002 54972 0374517940 9780374517946 10 <![CDATA[In Suspect Terrain]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445914m/54972.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445914s/54972.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54972.In_Suspect_Terrain 4.15 140 The Peaceable Kingdom. However, the calm landscape conceals the tortuous geological history of this region and the equally complex debates concerning the geological past of the eastern United States.

In Basin and Range, McPhee traveled across the United States with a strong proponent of plate tectonics. In this volume, he travels over some of the same terrain with Anita G. Harris, a geologist who questions the ability of plate tectonics to completely explain the geology of this part of the world. As always, McPhee conveys the brilliant enthusiasms of those he profiles and the engaging complexity of the disciplines within which they work.

This is the second of four books on North American geology by McPhee, collectively entitled Annals of the Former World. The other volumes are Basin and Range, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California.

]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1983 74 0374517193 9780374517199 12 <![CDATA[The John McPhee Reader]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876223m/74.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876223s/74.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74.The_John_McPhee_Reader 4.43 126 The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said “is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit,” who has been called “a master craftsman” so many times that it is pointless to number them.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1977 81 0374516006 9780374516000 9 <![CDATA[Giving Good Weight]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876225m/81.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876225s/81.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81.Giving_Good_Weight 4.14 130 </div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1975 54974 0374516936 9780374516932 11 <![CDATA[The Survival of the Bark Canoe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445914m/54974.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445914s/54974.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54974.The_Survival_of_the_Bark_Canoe 3.95 130 40 4.10 5853 701 1975 54968 0374515980 9780374515980 12 <![CDATA[The Curve of Binding Energy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445898m/54968.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445898s/54968.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54968.The_Curve_of_Binding_Energy 4.08 130 and the smallest nuclear weapons of his time (his masterpiece, the Davy Crockett, weighed in at a svelte 50 pounds) and also spearheaded efforts to create a nuclear-powered spacecraft. But in his later years, Taylor became increasingly concerned that compact and powerful bombs could be easily built not just by nations employing experts such as himself, but by single individuals with modest technical ability and perseverance. McPhee tours American nuclear installations with Taylor, and we are treated to a grim, eye-opening account of just how close we are to witnessing terrorist attacks using homemade nuclear weaponry. The Curve of Binding Energy is compelling writing about an urgently important topic.]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1975 128148 1899863249 9781899863242 9 <![CDATA[The Crofter and the Laird]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171946120m/128148.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171946120s/128148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128148.The_Crofter_and_the_Laird 4.03 93 The Crofter and the Laird is about people whose lives are still very much entwined with nature. But this particular volume carries added depth and feeling because McPhee is writing about his ancestral land, the island of Colonsay in the Scottish Hebrides. Crofter and the Laird is no starry-eyed and naive "back to the land" tract: McPhee describes the rigors and difficulties of this life with the same attention to detail he gives to the simple beauty of the land and lifestyle. Colonsay is a stark region of stone and seals and sheep and storms, with its residents still living under a feudal system of farmers, crofter, and lord. But McPhee honors this homeland with a rich work that would make his ancestors proud.]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1970 80 0374519323 9780374519322 10 <![CDATA[La Place De La Concorde Suisse]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876225m/80.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876225s/80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80.La_Place_De_La_Concorde_Suisse 3.78 106 La Place de la Concorde Suisse, a rich journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society, "there is scarcely a scene in Switzerland that is not ready to erupt in fire to repel an invasive war." With a population smaller than New Jersey's, Switzerland has a standing army of 650,000 ready to be mobilized in less than 48 hours. The Swiss Army, known in this country chiefly for its little red pocketknives, is so quietly efficient at the arts of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model. You'll understand why after reading this outstanding book.]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1984 54975 0374515263 9780374515263 10 <![CDATA[Levels of the Game]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445915m/54975.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445915s/54975.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54975.Levels_of_the_Game 4.19 89 </div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1970 54978 0374525455 9780374525453 8 <![CDATA[Irons in the Fire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445930m/54978.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445930s/54978.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54978.Irons_in_the_Fire 4.07 95 40 4.10 5853 701 1997 128147 0374520089 9780374520083 10 <![CDATA[Table of Contents]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171946108m/128147.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171946108s/128147.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128147.Table_of_Contents 4.23 78 Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in from the Poconos in search of a better life ("Riding the Boom Extension," "A Textbook Place for Bears").

In "North of the C.P. Line" the author introduces his friend John McPhee, a bush-pilot fish-and-game warden in northern Maine, who is also a writer. The two men met after the flying warden wrote to The New Yorker complaining that someone was using his name. Maine also is the milieu of "Heirs of General Practice," McPhee's highly acclaimed report—virtually a book in itself—on the new medical specialty called family practice. Much of it takes place in the examining rooms of a dozen young physicans in various rural communities, where they are seen in the context of their work with a great many patients of all ages.

Two relatively short pieces revisit the subjects of earlier McPhee books. "Ice Pond" demonstrates anew the innovative genius of the physicist Theodore B. Taylor, who developed a way of making and using with impressive results in the conservation of the electrical energy. "Open Man" describes a summer day in New Jersey in the company of Senator Bill Bradley.

In "Minihydro," various small-scale entrepreneurs in New York State set up turbines at nineteenth-century mill sites and sell electricity to power companies. A nice little country waterfall can earn as much as two hundred dollars a year for someone with such a turbine. And, "Under the Snow," McPhee Goes back into black bear's dens in Pensylvania in winter, where he becomes intoxicated with affection for some five-pound cubs. They remind him of his daughters.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1985 19897 0374516359 9780374516352 4 <![CDATA[The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290276m/19897.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290276s/19897.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19897.The_Deltoid_Pumpkin_Seed 3.76 82 In this exquisitely crafted tale of back-to-the-drawing-board perseverance, McPhee tells the story not only of the Aereon, but of any product development team. He astutely delineates the team members' personalities and interactions, delves back in time to the origins of lighter-than-air craft and the history of propellers, and in the end, makes us wonder why this promising technology hasn't been perfected. Like Aramis: Or the Love of Technology, this is a splendid book about a potentially superior aircraft which has yet to be adopted.

]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1963 54969 0374514984 9780374514983 5 <![CDATA[Pieces of the Frame]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445898m/54969.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445898s/54969.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54969.Pieces_of_the_Frame 4.16 62 Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of Georgia, to the high altitude of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico; from the social decay of Atlantic City, to Scotland, where a pilgrimage for art’s sake leads to a surprising encounter with history on a hilltop with a view of a fifth of the entire country. McPhee’s writing is more than informative; these are stories, artful and full of character, that make compelling reading. They play with and against one another, so that Pieces of the Frame is distinguished as much by its unity as by its variety. Subjects familiar to McPhee’s readers—sports, Scotland, conservation—are treated here with intimacy and a sense of the writer at work.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1975 821356 0374514968 9780374514969 7 <![CDATA[The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178679388m/821356.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178679388s/821356.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821356.The_Headmaster_Frank_L_Boyden_of_Deerfield 3.88 64 </div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1966 128153 0374515018 9780374515010 4 <![CDATA[A Roomful of Hovings: And Other Profiles]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171946141m/128153.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171946141s/128153.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128153.A_Roomful_of_Hovings_And_Other_Profiles 4.18 51 </div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1968 54977 0374524505 9780374524500 6 <![CDATA[The Ransom of Russian Art]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445916m/54977.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445916s/54977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54977.The_Ransom_of_Russian_Art 3.62 48
John McPhee investigates Dodge’s clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art, his motives for his work, and the fates of several of the artists whose lives he touched. The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other. It offers unprecedented insight into Soviet culture at the brink of the Union’s collapse.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1994 76 0374519749 9780374519742 4 <![CDATA[Heirs of General Practice]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876224m/76.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156876224s/76.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76.Heirs_of_General_Practice 3.89 46 Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age—about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new medical specialty called family practice. They are people who have addressed themselves to a need for a unifying generalism in a world that has become greatly subdivided by specialization, physicians who work with the “unquantifiable idea that a doctor who treats your grandmother, your father, your niece, and your daughter will be more adroit in treating you.”

These young men and women are seen in their examining rooms in various rural communities in Maine, but Maine is only the example. Their medical objectives, their successes, the professional obstacles they do and do not overcome are representative of any place family practitioners are working. While essential medical background is provided, McPhee’s masterful approach to a trend significant to all of us is replete with affecting, and often amusing, stories about both doctors and their charges.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1986 19895 0374524637 9780374524630 4 <![CDATA[The Second John McPhee Reader]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290276m/19895.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167290276s/19895.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19895.The_Second_John_McPhee_Reader 4.23 39 The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World.
</div>]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1996 290553 0883940604 9780883940600 0 <![CDATA[Alaska: Images of the Country]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290553.Alaska_Images_of_the_Country 4.40 10 Coming Into the Country, with the incomparable images of wilderness photojournalist Galen Rowell.
Chosen from more than 10,000 images taken by Rowell on nine separate expeditions to the Yukon State, the 112 full-color photographs featured here seamlessly complement McPhee's vivid prose. Together, text and images capture the overwhelming beauty and variety of America's last frontier - from the rapidly expanding city of Anchorage to the heights of Mount McKinley to the vast expanses of Alaska's frozen tundra.
McPhee's text includes profiles of a diverse collection of Alaska residents, providing fascinating glimpses of the people who thrive in the desolation and freedom of the Arctic: the self-proclaimed "weird characters" inhabiting the remote town of Eagle; 114-year-old Liza Malcolm, whose only language is an Indian tongue understood by less than a dozen living people; and violinist Frances Randall, who practices while working at a landing site on the Kahiltna Glacier.
This classic book offers readers an incomparable portrait of the complex and dramatically beautiful land that is Alaska. Indeed, as the Conservationist declared, "For those who have longed for years to visit America's last frontier, the purchase price of the book may be the least expense incurred in furthering a deep and abiding interest."
]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 1981 290584 1886967148 9781886967144 1 <![CDATA[The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454514m/290584.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454514s/290584.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290584.The_American_Shad_Selections_from_the_Founding_Fish 3.86 7 This is a large and compelling story. The misery and hunger of George Washington's troops at Valley Forge are palpable through McPhee's pen, as is their joy and salvation in the annual shad migration up the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Early Philadelphia comes alive with vendor's shouts of "Shad-e-o! Shad-e-o!" announcing newly-arrived fish. And with fly rod in hand, the author travels to the Miramichi in advance of the Atlantic salmon run for some remarkable, memorable shad fishing--unknown to most fly fishermen.

An Edition of 500 Copies Signed by the Author

]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 2004 290589 0788743937 0 <![CDATA[Crossing the Craton]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454515m/290589.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454515s/290589.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290589.Crossing_the_Craton 3.67 3 40 4.10 5853 701 2000 290573 0716774445 9780716774440 0 <![CDATA[Earth System History & Annals of the Fomer World]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290573.Earth_System_History_Annals_of_the_Fomer_World 0.0 0 43401 3.94 17 4 40 4.10 5853 701 1998 3204556 1 <![CDATA[All Of Them]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3204556.All_Of_Them 5.00 1 40 4.10 5853 701 1970 290558 0879052627 9780879052621 1 <![CDATA[Outcroppings]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290558.Outcroppings 4.00 1 40 4.10 5853 701 1988 290578 0716785161 9780716785163 0 <![CDATA[Macroeconomcs & World is Flat]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290578.Macroeconomcs_World_is_Flat 0.0 0 3035 3.78 170 24 40 4.10 5853 701 2005 54979 057114599X 9780571145997 0 <![CDATA[In the Highlands and the Islands]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54979.In_the_Highlands_and_the_Islands 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1986 290561 0642887268 9780642887269 0 <![CDATA[Australian decorative arts in the Australian National Gallery]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290561.Australian_decorative_arts_in_the_Australian_National_Gallery 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1982 290572 3608913009 9783608913002 0 <![CDATA[Cargo.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290572.Cargo_ 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1993 3216551 1876991216 9781876991210 0 <![CDATA[Joseph Lycett: Convict Artist]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3216551.Joseph_Lycett_Convict_Artist 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 2008 290560 0241021871 9780241021873 0 <![CDATA[Wimbledon: A Celebration]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290560.Wimbledon_A_Celebration 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1972 243708 5557086722 9785557086721 0 <![CDATA[A Sense of Where You Are/ The Headman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243708.A_Sense_of_Where_You_Are_The_Headman 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1978 5478942 0764816659 9780764816659 0 <![CDATA[Manual Para LA Familia Catolica Hispana De Hoy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5478942.Manual_Para_LA_Familia_Catolica_Hispana_De_Hoy 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 168124 0.0 0 0 2007 6817255 0374263736 9780374263737 0 <![CDATA[Silk Parachute]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6817255-silk-parachute 0.0 0 A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE’S PROSE PIECES—IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES

The brief, brilliant essay “Silk Parachute,” which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee’s most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here— highly varied in length and theme—McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe “on the chalk” from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France. Some of the pieces are wholly personal. In luminous recollections of his early years, for example, he goes on outings with his mother, deliberately overturns canoes in a learning process at a summer camp, and germinates a future book while riding on a jump seat to away games as a basketball player. But each piece—on whatever theme—contains somewhere a personal aspect in which McPhee suggests why he was attracted to write about the subject, and each opens like a silk parachute, lofted skyward and suddenly blossoming with color and form.]]> 40 4.10 5853 701 2010 3193972 1876991194 9781876991197 0 <![CDATA[Red Cedar in Australia]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3193972.Red_Cedar_in_Australia 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 2008 6335875 0911381082 9780911381085 0 <![CDATA[Riding the Boom Extension (Metacom Limited Edition Series)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6335875-riding-the-boom-extension 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1983 2503984 0642130884 0 <![CDATA[Australian Folk and Popular Art in the National Gallery]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2503984.Australian_Folk_and_Popular_Art_in_the_National_Gallery 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1988 2503985 0517127822 9780517127827 0 <![CDATA[Turning the World Upside Down]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2503985.Turning_the_World_Upside_Down 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1995 290559 0767424697 9780767424691 0 <![CDATA[Instructor's Manual to Accompany Worldly Wisdom by Daniel Bonevac]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290559.Instructor_s_Manual_to_Accompany_Worldly_Wisdom_by_Daniel_Bonevac 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 2001 290552 0333299116 9780333299111 0 <![CDATA[The Art of John Glover]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290552.The_Art_of_John_Glover 0.0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 1980 78118 0716785048 9780716785040 0 <![CDATA[Earth System History, Annals of the Former World & Scientific American Special Issue: Dinosaurs and Other Monsters]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78118.Earth_System_History_Annals_of_the_Former_World_Scientific_American_Special_Issue_Dinosaurs_and_Other_Monsters 0.0 0 43401 3.94 17 4 40 4.10 5853 701 2005 290585 1862875448 9781862875449 0 <![CDATA[Ethics and Law for the Health Professions]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454514m/290585.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454514s/290585.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290585.Ethics_and_Law_for_the_Health_Professions 0.0 0 168128 0.0 0 0 40 4.10 5853 701 2005 78119 0716783584 9780716783589 0 <![CDATA[Earth Systems History Loose Leaf & Annals of the Former World]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78119.Earth_Systems_History_Loose_Leaf_Annals_of_the_Former_World 0.0 0 43401 3.94 17 4 40 4.10 5853 701 2005