John McPhee
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English
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The Founding Fish is the shad, and John McPhee's veneration for it is both scientific and culinary. McPhee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. Noted for his accessible and perceptive studies of the physical world, he weaves together strands of personal, natural, and national history in this absorbing study that traces the shad's importance from the 17th century to his family's dinner table.
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English
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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...
3) The patch
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English
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"An "album quilt," an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book" --
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English
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"Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer?s craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he?s gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed writers of several generations. McPhee offers a definitive guide to the crucial decisions regarding structure, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First paperback edition.
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English
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A compilation of five books presenting a geological history of North America, the first four were previously published as Basin and Range (1981), In Suspect Terrain (1983), Rising from the Plains (1986), and Assembling California (1993), plus a final book, Crossing the Craton.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Looking back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, and reflecting on projects he never got around to – people to profile, regions he meant to portray, a literary legend presents a collection of vignettes and a “reminiscent montage” from a writing life.