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| | 1. |  | Coming into the Country
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one of the three books that i always recommend to folks i know who are either travelling to, or moving to Alaska.
McPhee is great. If you like this, then read Birchback Canoe and Control of Nature.
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| | 2. |  | The John McPhee Reader
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In this collection, a distillation taken from his many books, John McPhee describes a premier basketball player, Bill Bradley. Also featured is his, McPhee's, headmaster, Frank Boyden, of Deerfield Academy. Boyden practiced a form of management by walking around.McPhee tells of the famed oranges... more info
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| | 3. |  | Uncommon Carriers
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At the start of his book Oranges -- which contains everything you could want to know about oranges and, more importantly, nothing that you don't want to know -- John McPhee explains how legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn (known universally as "Mr. Shawn" and father of Wallace "Inconceivable!"... more info
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| | 4. |  | Encounters with the Archdruid
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I have an environmental background but never bought into the religion. I am not a fan of Brower but I wanted to learn more about him. I gained far more from this book than I had bargained for: McPhee is an amazing journalist, Brower is an interesting guy, and Brower's opponents were just as... more info
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| | 5. |  | The Control of Nature
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Price: $3.35
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McPhee manages to pinpoint and highlight controversies in such a way as to let us feel as though we are forming our own opinions and not being guided along into a particular viewpoint.
A good read for anyone who enjoys a decent piece of literary work, from above average high-school kids to... more info
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| | 7. |  | Basin and Range
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The idea of examining American geology a slice at a time by following I-80 from east to west was brilliant.
In this particular volume, McPhee deals with the Great Basin portion of that travelogue geology. There's a lot more than meets the eye -- especially the untrained eye not native to the... more info
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| | 8. |  | The Pine Barrens
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This is a non-fiction classic that, forty years on, still is a brisk and entertaining read. McPhee sketches the geography, history, and people of the Pine Barrens, a surprisingly undeveloped section of the country's most densely-populated state.
McPhee starts with "The Woods from Hog Willow," a... more info
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| | 9. |  | Annals of the Former World
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Any book 30 years in the making will, pretty much by necessity, only happen once in a writer's career. But more importantly, everything the masterful McPhee has learned about writing -- not to mention geology and its practitioners -- finds its way in here. And anything this good is likely to occur... more info
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| | 10. |  | The Crofter and the Laird
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Price: $4.95
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Strangely enough, I bought the book and have been unable to read it!
My friends find it on my kitchen table and keep borrowing it.
Each person who has borrowed this book absolutely raves about it!
Now if I could only get my book back!
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