Coming into the country / John McPhee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McPhee, John, 1931-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alaska--Description and travel.

Alaska.

McPhee, John, 1931-.

McPhee, John.

McPhee, John A.

Travel.

Local Subjects:

McPhee, John A.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

438 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

Summary:

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. Readers of McPhee's earlier books will not be unprepared for his surprising shifts of scene and ordering of events, brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining, the habits and legends of the barren-ground grizzly, the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief, and tales of the fortitude of settlers-ordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of America's notable literary craftsmen, singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design.

Contents:

Encircled river

What they were hunting for

Coming into the country.

ISBN:

0374126453

9780374126452

0374522871

9780374522872

0553145673

9780553145670

OCLC:

3223527

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