John McPhee

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....

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

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.

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

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)....

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

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

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....

Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years....

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....

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....

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

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....

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

Updated and expanded for its 20th anniversary, Camp is former Disney CEO Michael Eisner's coming-of-age story about his time in camp and how the indispensable lessons he learned there continue to influence him in business and in life.

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

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

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

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

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