Background
Phee, John Angus Mc was born on March 8, 1931 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Harry Roemer and Mary (Ziegler) McPhee.
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Basin and Range: Annals of the Former World, Book 1
(To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpa...)
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. In this first book of a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, the author crosses the spectacular Basin and Range with geology professor Kenneth Deffeyes in tow. McPhee draws on Deffeyes' expertise to dazzle you with the vast perspective of geologic time and the fascinating history of vanished landscapes. The effect is guaranteed to expand your mind. McPhee's enthusiasm is infectious, as he provides one of the best introductions to plate tectonics and the New Geology. His elegant style is more pleasing than ever with narrator Nelson Runger's smooth, enthusiastic delivery. Runger mines the book's rich veins of poetic prose and subtle humor, and the result is pure gold.
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The Crofter and the Laird
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John McPhee Collection: Pine Barrens, Survival of Birch Bark Canoe, Control of Nature, Place de la Concorde Suisse, Rising from Plains, In Suspect Terrain, Looking for a Ship, Encounters With Archdruid, Headmaster, Giving Good Weight, Basin & Range
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The Crofter and the Laird First edition by John McPhee (1970) Hardcover
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The Pine Barrens
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The Ransom of Russian Art (Hardback) - Common
(In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet e...)
In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United States. Norton Dodge visited the apartments of unofficial artists in at least a dozen geographically scattered cities. By 1977, he had a thousand works of art....
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In Suspect Terrain Paperback - January 1, 1984
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The Ransom of Russian Art
( In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet...)
In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United States. Norton Dodge visited the apartments of unofficial artists in at least a dozen geographically scattered cities. By 1977, he had a thousand works of art. His ultimate window of interest involved the years from 1956 to 1986, and through his established contacts he eventually acquired another eight thousand works--by far the largest collection of its kind. John McPhee investigates Dodge's clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art, his motives for his work, and the fates of several of the artists whose lives he touched. The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other. It offers unprecedented insight into Soviet culture at the brink of the Union's collapse.
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La Place de la Concorde Suisse Hardcover - May 7, 1984
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
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Looking for a Ship
( This is an extraordinary tale of life aboard what may b...)
This is an extraordinary tale of life aboard what may be one of the last American merchant ships. As the story begins, Andy Chase, who holds a license as a second mate is looking for a ship. In less than ten years, the United States Merchant Marine has shrunk from more than two thousand ships to fewer than four hundred, and Chase faces the scarcity of jobs from which all American merchant mariners have been suffering. With John McPhee along, Chase finds a job as a second mate aboard the S.S. Stella Lykes, captained by the extraordinary Paul McHenry Washburn. The journey takes them on a forty-two day run down the Pacific coast of South America, with stops to unload and pick up freight at such ports as Cartagena, Valparaiso, Balboa, Lima, and Guayaquil--an area notorious for pirates. As the crew make their ocean voyage, they tell sea stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage. Through the journey itself and the tales told emerge the history and character of a fascinating calling.
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(Pieces of the Frame) Author: John McPhee published on (May, 1979)
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Uncommon Carriers Cd (Library Edition)
(From Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee-author of The Foun...)
From Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee-author of The Founding Fish -comes the 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. McPhee begins his adventure riding with Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of an 18-wheeler hauling nearly 30 tons of highly toxic chemicals from North Carolina to Washington. He continues his journey on a towboat pushing over 1,000 feet of barge up the narrow channel of the Illinois River. He rounds out his account crawling through Nebraska, Kansas, and the Powder River Basin of Wyoming in massive coal trains. Along the way, he tells the stories of the people he meets and the places he visits. McPhee's sense of humor, incisive observations, and historical asides make for a highly entertaining journey across America.
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The Second John McPhee Reader Paperback - February 28, 1996
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{ THE RANSOM OF RUSSIAN ART } by McPhee, John (AUTHOR) Dec-31-1994 Hardcover
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Encounters with the Archdruid 1999
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(The Ransom of Russian Art ) Author: John McPhee Jan-1998
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The John McPhee Reader
( The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is com...)
The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit," who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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By John McPhee - Assembling California (1st) (1.2.1994)
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Encounters With The Archdruid
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Giving Good Weight
( "You people come into the market--the Greenmarket, in t...)
"You people come into the market--the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun--and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet corn. You are something wonderful, you are--people of the city--and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales." So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "Brigade de Cuisine," a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; "The Keel of Lake Dickey," in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two prizewinning journalists.
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ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD (2 vol set: Basin & Range and In Suspect Terrain) Ltd/signed ed
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The Pine Barrens
(The New Jersey classic by McPhee.)
The New Jersey classic by McPhee.
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Basin and Range
(From review - "John McPhee's Basin and Range is a layman'...)
From review - "John McPhee's Basin and Range is a layman's geology explaining the formation of mountains and valleys between the Great Salt Lake and the Sierra Nevadas."
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By John McPhee - Rising from the Plains (10.2.1987)
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe Paperback - May 1, 1982
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Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
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Encounters with the Archdruid Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Eleventh Printing edition
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Assembling California
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Annals of the Former World by McPhee, John (1998) Hardcover
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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed Paperback - September 1, 1992
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Uncommon Carriers by McPhee, John (2007) Paperback
(1st)
1st
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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
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The Founding Fish (UNABRIDGED) CD (AUDIOBOOK)
(The Founding Fish is the shad, and John McPhee's venerati...)
The Founding Fish is the shad, and John McPhee's veneration for it is both scientific and culinary. McPhee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. Noted for his accessible and perceptive studies of the physical world, he weaves together strands of personal, natural, and national history in this absorbing study that traces the shad's importance from the 17th century to his family's dinner table.
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(The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed) Author: John McPhee published on (September, 1992)
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(Assembling California) Author: John McPhee published on (December, 1994)
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A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of Princeton's William Warren Bradley
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Table of Contents
( Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces that ...)
Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in from the Poconos in search of a better life ("Riding the Boom Extension," "A Textbook Place for Bears"). In "North of the C.P. Line" the author introduces his friend John McPhee, a bush-pilot fish-and-game warden in northern Maine, who is also a writer. The two men met after the flying warden wrote to The New Yorker complaining that someone was using his name. Maine also is the milieu of "Heirs of General Practice," McPhee's highly acclaimed report--virtually a book in itself--on the new medical specialty called family practice. Much of it takes place in the examining rooms of a dozen young physicans in various rural communities, where they are seen in the context of their work with a great many patients of all ages. Two relatively short pieces revisit the subjects of earlier McPhee books. "Ice Pond" demonstrates anew the innovative genius of the physicist Theodore B. Taylor, who developed a way of making and using with impressive results in the conservation of the electrical energy. "Open Man" describes a summer day in New Jersey in the company of Senator Bill Bradley. In "Minihydro," various small-scale entrepreneurs in New York State set up turbines at nineteenth-century mill sites and sell electricity to power companies. A nice little country waterfall can earn as much as two hundred dollars a year for someone with such a turbine. And, "Under the Snow," McPhee Goes back into black bear's dens in Pensylvania in winter, where he becomes intoxicated with affection for some five-pound cubs. They remind him of his daughters.
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Coming into the Country: A Voyage of Spirit and Mind into America's Last Great W
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(The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University) Author: John McPhee published on (December, 2010)
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Annals Of The Former World
(History)
History
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profil By McPhee, John ( Author ) Paperback 1979
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Giving Good Weight
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Coming into the Country by McPhee, John (1977) Hardcover
(From Wiki: Coming into the Country is a 1976 book by John...)
From Wiki: Coming into the Country is a 1976 book by John McPhee about Alaska and McPhee's travels through much of the state with bush pilots, prospectors, and settlers, as well as politicians and businesspeople who each interpret the state in different ways. One of his most widely read books, Coming into the Country is divided into three sections, "At the Northern Tree Line: The Encircled River," "In Urban Alaska: What They Were Hunting For," and "In the Bush: Coming into the Country." Like all of McPhee's books, Coming into the Country started out as an outline that he proceeded to fill in. It is McPhee's best selling book
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The Ransom of Russian Art by McPhee, John (1994) Hardcover
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1st
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Rising from the Plains, 1987, 214 pages.
(1987 214 pages. Softbound, very good condition)
1987 214 pages. Softbound, very good condition
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
( In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the worl...)
In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the world of several fascinating people. His inimitable style reveals the intricate details of his characters lives.
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The Control of Nature
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The Founding Fish Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Pieces of the Frame by McPhee, John (1979) Paperback
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In Suspect Terrain Reissue edition by McPhee, John (1984) Paperback
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The Founding Fish McPhee, John ( Author ) { Paperback } 2003
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Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee (1980) Paperback
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
( In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the worl...)
In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the world of several fascinating people. His inimitable style reveals the intricate details of his characters lives.
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A Sense of Where You Are - The Story of Bill Bradley
(A biography of the early days (through college) of Bill B...)
A biography of the early days (through college) of Bill Bradley. Includes several pages of B & W photographs.
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La Place de la Concorde Suisse
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Looking For A Ship : by John McPhee (1-Sep-1990) Hardcover
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The Founding Fish
( John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal ...)
John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.
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Encounters With The Archdruid. Narratives About A Conservationist And Three Of His Natural Enemies.
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A militant conservationist confronts a resort developer, a mining engineer and a dam builder.
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The Crofter and the Laird Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles Paperback May 1, 1979
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The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish
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We are pleased to announce this collection of pieces from John McPhee's The Founding Fish in an elegant, beautifully illustrated Meadow Run Press edition. The Pulitzer Prize winning author is a national treasure--the author of twenty-six books. With vivid and spirited prose, McPhee masterfully weaves together the shad's natural history, his own angling history with the fish, along with the history of the early American settlers and the critical importance of this fish to their very existence. This is a large and compelling story. The misery and hunger of George Washington's troops at Valley Forge are palpable through McPhee's pen, as is their joy and salvation in the annual shad migration up the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Early Philadelphia comes alive with vendor's shouts of "Shad-e-o! Shad-e-o!" announcing newly-arrived fish. And with fly rod in hand, the author travels to the Miramichi in advance of the Atlantic salmon run for some remarkable, memorable shad fishing--unknown to most fly fishermen. An Edition of 500 Copies Signed by the Author
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A Roomful of Hovings
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Annals of the Former World 1st (first) editon Text Only
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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
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Coming into the Country Publisher: Farrar
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The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
( Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enroll...)
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." More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.
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A SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE : A PROFILE OF PRINCETON'S BILL BRADLEY 1st
(Princeton's William Warren Bradley was considered one of ...)
Princeton's William Warren Bradley was considered one of the greatest player in the Ivy League.
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Earth System History, Annals of the Former World & Scientific American Special Issue: Dinosaurs and Other Monsters
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{ ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ARCHDRUID } by McPhee, John (AUTHOR) Oct-01-1977 Paperback
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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor by McPhee, John (1994) Paperback
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Irons in the Fire
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By John McPhee - A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (5/31/99)
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The Crofter and The Laird
(The Crofter and The Laird Paperback - 1988)
The Crofter and The Laird Paperback - 1988
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(The Curve of Binding Energy) Author: John A. McPhee published on (April, 1994)
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Swiss Army La Place De La Concorde Suiss
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (Paperback) - Common
(Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore: Comprising Thei...)
Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore: Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries from 1812 to 1883 ...
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Giving Good Weight
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe by McPhee, John (1982) Paperback
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Table of Contents
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Last Moments of a World/American Caesar/Coming Into the Country/Is There a Doctor in the Zoo? (Reader's Digest Today's Nonfiction Bestsellers)
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Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conversationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
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La Place de la Concorde Suisse by McPhee, John (1994) Paperback
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles 5th edition by McPhee, John (1979) Paperback
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La Place de la Concorde Suisse Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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(The Crofter and the Laird ) Author: John McPhee Sep-1992
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
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Basin and Range by McPhee, John (1981) Hardcover
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Rising From the Plains: Annals of the Former World, Book 3
(Annals of the Former World is the result of a 20-year jou...)
Annals of the Former World is the result of a 20-year journey. During that time, John McPhee, author of 25 books and noted writer for The New Yorker, crisscrossed the United States, roughly following the 40th parallel. The geological insights and wonderful descriptions McPhee packed into his accounts of these trips earned his remarkable book a Pulitzer Prize. The third part of that book, Rising From the Plains, takes McPhee to the high country of Utah along the Continental Divide. His guide is David Love, "the grand old man of Rocky Mountain geology". Helping McPhee see the physical changes that have shaped this region over millions of years, Love also traces his own family's history in this oil-rich, windswept land. As McPhee climbs into the granite landscape of the Rockies, Rising From the Plains creates a fascinating picture of the interdependence of geology, commerce, and culture. Nelson Runger's clear narration further enhances McPhee's engaging text.
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Coming into the Country
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The Second John McPhee Reader
( This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes m...)
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 that comprise Annals of the Former World.
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In Suspect Terrain: Annals of the Former World, Book 2
(John McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former...)
John McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World takes readers on mind-expanding adventures in geology. In the first book, Basin and Range, McPhee traveled to Nevada with a proponent of plate techtonics. Now, an engaging sceptic working for the United States Geological Survey is his guide to some of eastern America's most fascinating geologic formations. Respected geologist Anita Harris doesn't completely accept the reigning gospel of plate tectonics. Rather than limiting herself to one theory, the Brooklyn native insists on letting the rocks tell their own stories. Pickaxe and hydrochloric acid in hand, Harris guides McPhee to terrain that speaks of sudden, cataclysmic events and the spectacular, relatively recent, movement of glaciers. Author John McPhee is celebrated for his elegant style and skill in making specialized material accessible. When the narrative talents of Nelson Runger are added, you will discover that the intricacies of geology become not only understandable, but most entertaining.
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Looking for a Ship Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Rising from the Plains
( Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on g...)
Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel--a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World.
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In Suspect Terrain
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Levels of the Game
( This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe ag...)
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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(Uncommon Carriers) Author: John McPhee published on (August, 2006)
(What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they ...)
What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation. Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. "Uncommon Carriers "is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the "tight-assed" Illinois River on a "towboat" pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being "a good deal longer than the "Titanic."" And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John, in a homemade skiff in 1839. "Uncommon Carriers "is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.
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Encounters with the Archdruid (Chinese Edition)
(Encounters with the Archdruid is a famous case in the his...)
Encounters with the Archdruid is a famous case in the history of American environmental movements. In 1968, when the environmental protection was in the ascendant, the federal government intended to build a dam in the core zone of Grand Canyon Colorado. David Brauer, the executive director of American Mountain Club, the most important actor of environmentalism, objected to the building of that dam. The author followed Brauer to float downstream on a raft in Colorado river, witnessed and recorded the very meaningful event and moment in the history of American environmental protection movement.
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The Second John McPhee Reader by McPhee, John (1996) Paperback
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Coming into the Country (AUDIOBOOK) CD (UNABRIDGED)
(Those who have traveled into America's only remaining fro...)
Those who have traveled into America's only remaining frontier rarely come back out the same. Only in Alaska can we come close to understanding what our forefathers must have felt upon their arrival in the New World. McPhee brings to this narrative the qualities that have distinguished him in the field of travel literature-tolerance, brisk, and entertaining prose, and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice.
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(The John McPhee Reader) Author: John McPhee published on (June, 1982)
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Earth Systems History Loose Leaf + Annals of the Former World
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In Suspect Terrain: From Annals of the Former World
(GREAT RARE FIND)
GREAT RARE FIND
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Uncommon Carriers
( This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain s...)
This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John McPhee rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, five-axle, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats--in Ainsworth's opinion "the world's most beautiful truck," so highly polished you could part your hair while looking at it. He goes "out in the sort" among the machines that process a million packages a day at UPS Air's distribution hub at Louisville International Airport. And (among other trips) he travels up the "tight-assed" Illinois River on a towboat pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being "a good deal longer than the Titanic," longer even than the Queen Mary 2. Uncommon Carriers is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.
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Encounters with the Archdruid
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Basin and Range
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A Sense Of Where You Are- A Profile Of Princeton's Bill Bradley
(When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the begin...)
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was, and this part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley's magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself-his self-discipline, his rationality, and his sense of responsibility. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate-a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.
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Crossing the Craton: Annals of the Former World, Book 4
(With his Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former Worl...)
With his Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World, John McPhee explores not only the richly varied surface of the United States, but the geological wonders hidden deep beneath our feet. In this final book of the series, he embarks on a fascinating journey across the basement of the continent - the land masses forming Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and thereabouts - with a professor and geochronologist acting as a guide. Whether Randy Van Schmus is out in the field with his students, or grinding rock in the university lab, he insists the flat plains of middle America are anything but dull. He tells the story of eons of violent upheaval that is written in the features lying far below the shimmering wheat fields. As he shares how scientists are unlocking the secrets of the earth's timetable, millions of years seem but brief moments. John McPhee's enthusiasm and peerless writing style make the study of geology both accessible and entertaining. And Nelson Runger's thought-provoking performance ensures you will view the earth with fresh insight.
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(Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles) Author: John McPhee published on (June, 1985)
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Il formidabile esercito svizzero. La Place de la Concorde suisse
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Annals of the Former World
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(Giving Good Weight) Author: John McPhee published on (April, 1994)
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Pieces of the Frame
( Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writing...)
Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time. They take the reader from the backwoods roads of Georgia, to the high altitude of Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico; from the social decay of Atlantic City, to Scotland, where a pilgrimage for art's sake leads to a surprising encounter with history on a hilltop with a view of a fifth of the entire country. McPhee's writing is more than informative; these are stories, artful and full of character, that make compelling reading. They play with and against one another, so that Pieces of the Frame is distinguished as much by its unity as by its variety. Subjects familiar to McPhee's readers--sports, Scotland, conservation--are treated here with intimacy and a sense of the writer at work.
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Coming into the Country Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Annals of the Former World
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- In Suspect Terrain, 1987, 210 pages. (1987 210 pages. Softbound, very good condition)
John Angus Mc McPhee
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John Angus Mc Phee, American Writer. Recipient award in literature American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1977, Woodrow Wilson award Princeton University, 1982, John Wesley Powell award United States.Geol. Survey, 1988, John Burroughs medal, 1990, Walter Sullivan award American Geophysical Union, 1993, award of merit Field Museum Natural History, 1998. Fellow Geological Society American; member American Academy Arts and Letters.
M C.
Education
AB, Princeton University, 1953. Postgraduate, Magdalene College. Postgraduate, Cambridge University, England, 1954.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Bates College, 1978. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Colby College, 1978. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Williams College, 1979.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Alaska, 1980. Doctor of Letters (honorary), College William and Mary, 1988. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Rutgers University, 1988.
Doctor of Letters, Yale University, 2009. Doctor of Science, Maine Maritime Academy, 1992.
Career
Television playwright for, Robert Montgomery Presents, New York City, 1955-1956; contributing editor, associate editor, Time magazine, 1957-1964; staff writer, The New Yorker magazine, since 1965; Ferris professor journalism, Princeton University, since 1975.
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Table of Contents
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Coming into the Country by McPhee, John (1977) Hardcover
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The Second John McPhee Reader
( This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes m...)
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The Ransom of Russian Art (Hardback) - Common
(In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet e...)
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The Ransom of Russian Art
( In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet...)
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Crossing the Craton: Annals of the Former World, Book 4
(With his Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former Worl...)
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Levels of the Game
( This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe ag...)
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The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
( Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enroll...)
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Uncommon Carriers
( This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain s...)
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Basin and Range
(From review - "John McPhee's Basin and Range is a layman'...)
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Uncommon Carriers Cd (Library Edition)
(From Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee-author of The Foun...)
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The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish
(We are pleased to announce this collection of pieces from...)
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Giving Good Weight
( "You people come into the market--the Greenmarket, in t...)
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The Founding Fish
( John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal ...)
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (Paperback) - Common
(Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore: Comprising Thei...)
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Pieces of the Frame
( Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writing...)
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In Suspect Terrain: Annals of the Former World, Book 2
(John McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former...)
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The John McPhee Reader
( The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is com...)
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Basin and Range: Annals of the Former World, Book 1
(To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpa...)
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The Founding Fish (UNABRIDGED) CD (AUDIOBOOK)
(The Founding Fish is the shad, and John McPhee's venerati...)
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Encounters with the Archdruid (Chinese Edition)
(Encounters with the Archdruid is a famous case in the his...)
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Looking for a Ship
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A SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE : A PROFILE OF PRINCETON'S BILL BRADLEY 1st
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(Uncommon Carriers) Author: John McPhee published on (August, 2006)
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Encounters With The Archdruid. Narratives About A Conservationist And Three Of His Natural Enemies.
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Coming into the Country (AUDIOBOOK) CD (UNABRIDGED)
(Those who have traveled into America's only remaining fro...)
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
( In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the worl...)
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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
( In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the worl...)
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A Sense Of Where You Are- A Profile Of Princeton's Bill Bradley
(When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the begin...)
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Rising from the Plains
( Rising from the Plains is John McPhee's third book on g...)
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A Sense of Where You Are - The Story of Bill Bradley
(A biography of the early days (through college) of Bill B...)
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Rising From the Plains: Annals of the Former World, Book 3
(Annals of the Former World is the result of a 20-year jou...)
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The Crofter and The Laird
(The Crofter and The Laird Paperback - 1988)
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The Pine Barrens
(The New Jersey classic by McPhee.)
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In Suspect Terrain, 1987, 210 pages.
(1987 210 pages. Softbound, very good condition)
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Rising from the Plains, 1987, 214 pages.
(1987 214 pages. Softbound, very good condition)
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In Suspect Terrain: From Annals of the Former World
(GREAT RARE FIND)
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Annals Of The Former World
(History)
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Uncommon Carriers by McPhee, John (2007) Paperback
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The Ransom of Russian Art by McPhee, John (1994) Hardcover
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- The Crofter and the Laird
- John McPhee Collection: Pine Barrens, Survival of Birch Bark Canoe, Control of Nature, Place de la Concorde Suisse, Rising from Plains, In Suspect Terrain, Looking for a Ship, Encounters With Archdruid, Headmaster, Giving Good Weight, Basin & Range
- The Crofter and the Laird First edition by John McPhee (1970) Hardcover
- The Pine Barrens
- In Suspect Terrain Paperback - January 1, 1984
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse Hardcover - May 7, 1984
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe
- (Pieces of the Frame) Author: John McPhee published on (May, 1979)
- The Second John McPhee Reader Paperback - February 28, 1996
- { THE RANSOM OF RUSSIAN ART } by McPhee, John (AUTHOR) Dec-31-1994 Hardcover
- Encounters with the Archdruid 1999
- (The Ransom of Russian Art ) Author: John McPhee Jan-1998
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- By John McPhee - Assembling California (1st) (1.2.1994)
- Encounters With The Archdruid
- ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD (2 vol set: Basin & Range and In Suspect Terrain) Ltd/signed ed
- By John McPhee - Rising from the Plains (10.2.1987)
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe Paperback - May 1, 1982
- Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
- Encounters with the Archdruid Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Eleventh Printing edition
- Assembling California
- Annals of the Former World by McPhee, John (1998) Hardcover
- The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed Paperback - September 1, 1992
- The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
- (The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed) Author: John McPhee published on (September, 1992)
- (Assembling California) Author: John McPhee published on (December, 1994)
- A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of Princeton's William Warren Bradley
- Coming into the Country: A Voyage of Spirit and Mind into America's Last Great W
- (The Princeton Reader: Contemporary Essays by Writers and Journalists at Princeton University) Author: John McPhee published on (December, 2010)
- A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profil By McPhee, John ( Author ) Paperback 1979
- Giving Good Weight
- The Control of Nature
- The Founding Fish Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Pieces of the Frame by McPhee, John (1979) Paperback
- In Suspect Terrain Reissue edition by McPhee, John (1984) Paperback
- The Founding Fish McPhee, John ( Author ) { Paperback } 2003
- Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee (1980) Paperback
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse
- Looking For A Ship : by John McPhee (1-Sep-1990) Hardcover
- The Crofter and the Laird Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles Paperback May 1, 1979
- A Roomful of Hovings
- Annals of the Former World 1st (first) editon Text Only
- The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
- Coming into the Country Publisher: Farrar
- Earth System History, Annals of the Former World & Scientific American Special Issue: Dinosaurs and Other Monsters
- { ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ARCHDRUID } by McPhee, John (AUTHOR) Oct-01-1977 Paperback
- The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor by McPhee, John (1994) Paperback
- Irons in the Fire
- By John McPhee - A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (5/31/99)
- (The Curve of Binding Energy) Author: John A. McPhee published on (April, 1994)
- Swiss Army La Place De La Concorde Suiss
- Giving Good Weight
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe by McPhee, John (1982) Paperback
- Table of Contents
- Last Moments of a World/American Caesar/Coming Into the Country/Is There a Doctor in the Zoo? (Reader's Digest Today's Nonfiction Bestsellers)
- Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conversationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
- The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse by McPhee, John (1994) Paperback
- A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles 5th edition by McPhee, John (1979) Paperback
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- (The Crofter and the Laird ) Author: John McPhee Sep-1992
- A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
- Basin and Range by McPhee, John (1981) Hardcover
- Coming into the Country
- Looking for a Ship Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- In Suspect Terrain
- The Second John McPhee Reader by McPhee, John (1996) Paperback
- (The John McPhee Reader) Author: John McPhee published on (June, 1982)
- Earth Systems History Loose Leaf + Annals of the Former World
- Encounters with the Archdruid
- Basin and Range
- (Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles) Author: John McPhee published on (June, 1985)
- Il formidabile esercito svizzero. La Place de la Concorde suisse
- Annals of the Former World
- (Giving Good Weight) Author: John McPhee published on (April, 1994)
- Coming into the Country Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Annals of the Former World
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Membership
Fellow Geological Society American. Member American Academy Arts and Letters. M C.
Connections
Married Pryde Brown, March 16, 1957. Children: Laura, Sarah, Jenny, Martha. Married Yolanda Whitman, March 8, 1972.
Stepchildren: Cole Harrop, Andrew Harrop, Katherine Harrop, Vanessa Speir.
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Recipient award in literature, American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1977, Woodrow Wilson award, Princeton University, 1982, Journalism award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1982, 1987, John Wesley Powell award, United States Geological Survey, 1988, John Burroughs medal, 1990, Walter Sullivan award, American Geophysical Union, 1993, Heritage award, Deerfield Academy, 1995, James H. Shea award, National Association Geology Teachers, 1995, award for Outstanding Achievement, American Institute Petroleum Geologists, 1997, award of merit, Field Museum Natural History, 1998, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Annals of the Former World, 1999, President's award for distinguished teaching, Princeton University, 1999, Public Service award, Geological Society of America, 2002, Gold medal for Distinction in Natural Art, Academy Natural Sciences, George Polk Career award, 2007.Recipient award in literature, American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1977, Woodrow Wilson award, Princeton University, 1982, Journalism award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1982, 1987, John Wesley Powell award, United States Geological Survey, 1988, John Burroughs medal, 1990, Walter Sullivan award, American Geophysical Union, 1993, Heritage award, Deerfield Academy, 1995, James H. Shea award, National Association Geology Teachers, 1995, award for Outstanding Achievement, American Institute Petroleum Geologists, 1997, award of merit, Field Museum Natural History, 1998, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Annals of the Former World, 1999, President's award for distinguished teaching, Princeton University, 1999, Public Service award, Geological Society of America, 2002, Gold medal for Distinction in Natural Art, Academy Natural Sciences, George Polk Career award, 2007.