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Grover Gardner
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John McPhee
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The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her—stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thousand details add up to one impression
- De Darwin8u en 11-15-18
De: John McPhee
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Silk Parachute
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute", which first appeared in The New Yorker over 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 travels, a US Open golf championship, and a season in Europe "on the chalk" from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Netherlands and France.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's a landscape with the aspect of memory."
- De Darwin8u en 11-23-18
De: John McPhee
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Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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 consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design. In Tabula Rasa, Volume 1, McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, reflecting wryly upon projects he once planned to do but never got around to—people to profile, regions he meant to portray.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A New Yorker writer surveys his office boxes...
- De Darwin8u en 09-04-23
De: John McPhee
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Irons in the Fire
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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. His peerless writing, punctuated with a sharp sense of humor and fascinating detail, has earned him legions of fans across the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New New Journalism is on Fire
- De Darwin8u en 02-10-15
De: John McPhee
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Encounters with the Archdruid
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
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 four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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McPhee at the absolute height of his powers
- De Tom Craven en 06-25-24
De: John McPhee
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Coming into the Country
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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 that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Welcome to Alaska
- De James en 10-30-11
De: John McPhee
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The Headmaster
- Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities."
De: John McPhee
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Levels of the Game
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
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. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.
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5 out of 5 stars
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McPhee's early work is brilliant.
- De Darwin8u en 06-12-23
De: John McPhee
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Basin and Range
- Annals of the Former World, Book 1
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 531
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 348
To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpanes, and the earth is alive, a work in progress. The cataclysmic movement that gives birth to mountains and oceans is ongoing and can still be seen at certain places on our planet. One of these is the Basin and Range region centered in Nevada and Utah.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow.
- De Julie en 10-12-04
De: John McPhee
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The Second John McPhee Reader, Book Two
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction. McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, punctuates his delightful prose with a sharp sense of humor, and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An Eclectic Collections of Stories but...
- De Sparkie en 07-20-05
De: John McPhee
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Draft No. 4
- On the Writing Process
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: John McPhee
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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 writers of several generations. McPhee offers a definitive guide to the crucial decisions regarding structure, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces and presents extracts from some of his best-loved work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny.
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4 out of 5 stars
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McPhee is the Craft
- De Darwin8u en 09-19-17
De: John McPhee
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Ends of the Earth
- Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
- De: Neil Shubin
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
Renowned scientist Neil Shubin has made extraordinary discoveries by leading scientific expeditions to the sweeping ice landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic. He’s survived polar storms, traveled in temperatures that can freeze flesh in seconds, and worked hundreds of miles from the nearest humans, all to deepen our understanding of our world. Written with infectious enthusiasm and irresistible curiosity, Ends of the Earth blends travel writing, science, and history in a book brimming with surprising and wonderful discoveries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent scientific view of the poles
- De Prosanta Chakrabarty en 02-27-25
De: Neil Shubin
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The Second John McPhee Reader, Book One
- De: John McPhee
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction. McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, and Assembling California punctuates his delightful prose with a sharp sense of humor and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- De Privacy Maven en 11-08-23
De: John McPhee