John McPhee

This first-hand account of the transportation sector features evocative portraits of the men and women who deliver our consumer and industrial goods....

The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master John McPhee. It is divided into two parts. It is an "album quilt", an artful assortment of nonfiction writings that have not previously appeared in any book....

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction....

To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpanes, and the earth is alive, a work in progress....

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction....

A wondrous book of McPhee's prose pieces - in many aspects his most personal in four decades....

Author John McPhee embarks on a journey across the basement of the continent - the land masses forming Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and thereabouts - with a professor and geochronologist as a guide....

John McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World takes readers on mind-expanding adventures in geology....

Rising From the Plains creates a fascinating picture of the interdependence of geology, commerce, and culture....

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....

Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad....

A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a magazine article, but John McPhee kept encountering so much irresistible information that he wrote a book. It is perhaps the last word on the subject (the first came in 500 BC and is attributed to Confucius)....

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California.

Fabulously entertaining and filled with the intriguing trivia of life, Irons in the Fire is another impeccably crafted collection of seven essays by John McPhee....

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens....

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....

The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses—on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon....

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

A literary legend reviews his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why....

The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature.