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Coming Into the Country

John McPhee

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Jan 05, 2010 Erica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, geology

I'd easily put this in my top ten books ever read category, right up there alongside another McPhee book, Annals of the Former World.
This book is written for folks like myself, that are obsessed with the ideal of living in Alaska, of getting away from it all, of the dream of escaping from a corrupt country, into a country that while in America, is definitely not of America. McPhee has some of the most wonderful prose I have ever read, and he tackles with it the three frontiers, all wild to diff ...more

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Feb 16, 2025 Agatha Donkar Lund rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: travel, alaska, audiobook, outdoors, pop-sugar-2025, 2025

3.5 This was excellent, but also suffered from a lot of expressed opinions that land extremely differently here, in February of the year of our Lord 2025, than I am sure they did when this was written. This is not McPhee's fault. That does not make some of the latter half any less difficult to listen to. The audiobook version had a great reader. ...more

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