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The Second John McPhee Reader

By Patricia , McPhee , John;Remnick , David;Strachan

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9780374708450, 9780374256869, 0374256861, 9780374524630, 0374524637, 0374708452
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
517 kB (529454 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
(xvii, 393 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
LITERARY COLLECTIONS--Essays;Nature;Essays;Geology

Description

Coming into the country [excerpt] -- Giving good weight : a collection. Giving good weight [excerpt] ; Brigade de cuisine [excerpt] -- Basin and range [excerpt] -- In suspect terrain [excerpt] -- La Place de la Concorde Suisse [excerpt] -- Table of contents : a collection. Under the snow ; Heirs of general practice [excerpt] ; North of the C.P. line [excerpt] -- Rising from the plains [excerpt] -- The control of nature [excerpt] -- Looking for a ship [excerpt] -- Assembling California [excerpt] -- The ransom of Russian art [excerpt].;This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology gathering under the title Annals of the Former World: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California.

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