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John McPhee has 112 books on Goodreads with 179517 ratings. John McPhee’s most popular book is Coming Into the Country.
- John McPhee (Author of Coming Into the Country) - Goodreads
He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the...
- Annals of the Former World by John McPhee - Goodreads
Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back...
- John McPhee (Author of Coming Into the Country) - Goodreads
One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country, is about the three faces of Alaska: the urban, the rural, and the Alaskan wilderness.
He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists).
15 cze 2000 · Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction.
10 cze 1998 · Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with.
1 kwi 1991 · "John McPhee's Coming into the Country is a stunningly marvelous book about Alaska, its people, and its wilderness...." Read more "...Alaska, it's colonizers, the people who lived there, and provides interesting tips about how to survive in a hostile environment...."
11 lip 2023 · A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and ...
