Annals of the Former World
by John A. McPhee
In 1978 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 ... Read More
Assembling California
by John McPhee
Listed under Geology by McPhee
Alaska: Images of the Country
by Galen Rowell (Photographer), John McPhee
Listed under Alaska: Photography
The
Control of Nature
by John McPhee
(Paperback - September 1990)
The
Curve of Binding Energy
by John A. McPhee
Theodore B. Taylor was among the most ingenious engineers of the nuclear
age. He created the most powerful 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. Amazon.com
(Hardcover - May 1974)
The
Founding Fish
by John McPhee
Paperback from Farrar Straus & Giroux
Book Published: September, 2003 |
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Encounters
With the Archdruid
by John A. McPhee
(Paperback - September 1990)
Levels
of the Game
by John McPhee
Book Description: This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe
against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising
into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee
provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the
backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.
Paperback from Noonday Press
Book Published: 01 November, 1979 |
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The
Pine Barrens
by John A. McPhee, James Graves (Illustrator)
(Hardcover - June 1968)
Rising from the Plains
by John McPhee
Part three of McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the geology
encountered along the fortieth parallel as it traverses the United States.
Listed under Geology by McPhee
In Suspect Terrain
by John McPhee
Listed under Geology by McPhee
Irons
in the Fire
by John McPhee
(Hardcover - April 1997)
Levels
of the Game
by John A. McPhee
(Paperback - December 1979)
Headmaster:
Frank L.Boyden of Deerfield
by John McPhee
(Paperback - April 1985)
John
McPhee Reader
by John McPhee, William L. Howarth (Editor)
(Paperback - April 1985)
The
Second John McPhee Reader
by John A. McPhee, et al
(Paperback - January 1996)
Heirs
of General Practice
by John McPhee
(Paperback - March 1986)
Basin and Range
by John McPhee
One of the most valuable tools for the advancement of geological science
has in fact been the humble road cut. United States Interstate 80 crosses
the entire North American continent, in the process exposing hundreds of
millions of years of geological history. In Basin and Range, McPhee, accompanied
at times by Princeton geologist Kenneth S. Dreyfuss, 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. - Amazon.com
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Coming into the Country
by John McPhee
Residents of the Lower 48 sometimes imagine Alaska as a snow-covered
land of igloos, oil pipelines, and polar bears. But Alaska is far more
complex geographically, culturally, ecologically, and politically than
most Americans know, and few writers are as capable of capturing this complexity
as John McPhee. In Coming into the Country, McPhee describes his travels
through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers,
as well as politicians and businesspeople who have their eyes set on a
very different future for the state. - Amazon.com
Listed under Alaskan Travel Books
Looking
for a Ship
by John McPhee
(Paperback - September 1991)
Pieces
of the Frame
by John McPhee
(Paperback - May 1979)
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
by John McPhee
Listed under Airships
Roomful
of Hovings and Other Profiles
by John McPhee
(Paperback - June 1985)
A
Sense of Where You Are
by John McPhee
First published in 1965, 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. Amazon.com
Paperback: 144 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.68 x
8.28 x 5.57
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux; (June 30, 1999)
ISBN: 0374526893
Oranges
by John A. McPhee
(Paperback - April 1991)
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
by John McPhee
In an age of mass-produced and disposable objects, traditional crafts
are becoming extinct, and appreciation for craftsmanship has become a hobby
for the wealthy dilettante. But here and there, a few stalwart individuals
carry on the old traditions. Henri Vaillancourt of Greenville, New Hampshire
is in large part responsible for the continuing survival of the birch bark
canoe. McPhee tells the story not only of Vaillancourt and his work, but
of the canoe's role in American history. Many McPhee fans consider this
lovely and lucid book one of his finest works. Amazon.com
Listed under Canoeing
The
Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferris/McGraw Writers
at Princeton University.
by John A. McPhee (Editor), Carol Rigolot (Editor)
(Paperback)
The Ransom of Russian Art
by John A. McPhee
The story of Norton Townshend Dodge, a professor of economics who smuggled
large quantities of dissident art out of the Soviet Union. Db
Listed undedr Russian Art
Giving
Good Weight
by John A. McPhee
Book Description: "You people come into the market—the Greenmarket,
in the open air under the down pouring sun—and you slit the tomatoes
with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose
your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet
corn. You are something wonderful, you are—people of the city—and we,
who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you
as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales." So opens the
title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped
here with four others, including "Brigade de Cuisine," a profile of an
artistic and extraordinary chef; "The Keel of Lake Dickey," in which a
journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge
projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power
plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two
prizewinning journalists.
(Hardcover - December 1979)
La
Place De La Concorde Suisse
by John McPhee
(Paperback - April 1994)
Crofter and the Laird
by John McPhee
Book Description: When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors—Colonsay,
twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland—a hundred and thirty-eight
people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers,
had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three
hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who owned Colonsay,
were “incomers.” Donald McNeill, the crofter of the title, was working
out his existence in this last domain of the feudal system; the laird,
the fourth Baron Strathcona, lived in Bath, appeared on Colonsay mainly
in the summer, and accepted with nonchalance the fact that he was the least
popular man on the island he owned. While comparing crofter and laird,
McPhee gives readers a deep and rich portrait of the terrain, the history,
the legends, and the people of this fragment of the Hebrides.
(Paperback - September 1978)
Out of Print
John
McPhee (Twayne's United States Authors Series, No 674)
by Michael Pearson
(Hardcover - January 1997)
Table
of Contents
by John McPhee
(Paperback - April 1994)
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