McPhee, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G. K. Hall 1999

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McPhee, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994

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McPhee, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1989

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McPhee, John

Summary: Bestselling author McPhee takes us on another exciting geological excursion with this engaging account of life--past and present--in the high plains of Wyoming.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1986

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McPhee, John

Summary: Fascinating story of an often overlooked, yet vitally important part of America. This first-hand account of the transportation sector features evocative portraits of the men and women who deliver our consumer and industrial goods.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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McPhee, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1968

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McPhee, John

Summary: The essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here--highly varied in length and theme--McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010

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McPhee, John

Summary: 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 an even wider variety of other subjects, he has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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McPhee, John

Summary: John McPhee watches what an interstate truck driver, a railroad engineer, a towboat captain, and shipmasters do to conduct safely tens of thousands of tons of conveyance and cargo to their destinations.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson/Gale 2006

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McPhee, John.

Summary: In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1975

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McPhee, John

Summary: "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." "Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a many-layered tale, and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1998

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McPhee, John

Summary: The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017

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McPhee, John

Summary: "Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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McPhee, John

Summary: From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there a modern collision of ideas about the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1983

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McPhee, John

Contents: Irons in the fire -- Release -- In virgin forest -- The gravel page -- Duty of care -- Rinard at Manheim -- Travels of the rock.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997

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McPhee, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002

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McPhee, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1990

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McPhee, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1981

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McPhee, John

Summary: This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1990

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McPhee, John A.

Contents: 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....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1996

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McShea, John

Summary: An entertaining account of an active retiree taking a solo and self-supported 15-day bike trip around Lake Michigan, starting from and finishing in Chicago. The adventure began with McShea crossing the southern rim of the lake, riding up the lake's eastern shore through Michigan, across the Upper Peninsula, and finally south along the lake's western shore through Wisconsin and back to Illinois....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000

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McAfee, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodland Publications 2001

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