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1	Coming Into the Country more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist Originally appearing in The New Yorker, this colorful natural history of Alaska illuminates lesser-known aspects to Native Alaskan culture and provides insight into the state's perpetual debates between conservationists and industrialists. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Stalking the wild asparagus. more books like this by Euell Gibbons add to wishlist Euell Gibbons was one of the few people in this country to devote a considerable part of his life to the adventure of "living off the land." He sought out wild plants all over North America and made them into delicious dishes. His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins and twenty different pies. He also ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $13.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Rising from the Plains more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist Bestselling author McPhee takes us on another exciting geological excursion with this engaging account of life--past and present--in the high plains of Wyoming. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Annals of the Former World more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist Grounding scientific explanation in accessible, often humorous prose, this multilayered travelogue explores the diversity of America's geology and culture. McPhee unravels the mysteries of the country's geological timeline and reveals the quirks and motivations of his fellow travelers--preeminent geologists investigating the earth's history ... see all copies from $5.20! new only from $5.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Assembling California more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee has made geological field trips in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Uncommon Carriers more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Encounters with the Archdruid more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist 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.. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.74! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Basin and range more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, "Basin and Range "is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist First published in 1965, this title deals primarily with Bill Bradley's basketball career at Princeton University in the early 1960s. The star player and Rhodes scholar later joined the New York Knicks, and won a U.S. Senate seat in 1979. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Control of Nature more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist Concentrating on three contemporary stories of peoples battling against the earth and its elements, this book examines humankind's attempts to tame the forces of nature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Looking for a Ship more books like this by McPhee add to wishlist McPhee writes about the 42-day voyage of a merchant ship, from Charleston, South Carolina to the west coast of South America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Survival of the Bark Canoe more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. "The Survival of the Bark Canoe "is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist With his customary reportorial brilliance, John McPhee has written the story of the life and career of Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist who has been one of the most inventive nuclear scientists of our time. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Pieces of the Frame more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $8.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Pine Barrens more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban industrial corridor 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. see all copies from $2.27! new only from $4.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Irons in the Fire more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist Essays by McPhee on such diverse issues as cattle-branding in Nevada, tire dumps, a blind writer with a talking computer, and an auction of exotic cars. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Ransom of Russian Art more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist A report on the plight of dissident artists in the Soviet Union, and an American professor who smuggled their work abroad. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America more books like this by Edwin Tappan Adney, Howard I Chappelle, John McPhee (Foreword by) add to wishlist The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birchbark, were among the most highly developed manually propelled primitive watercraft. Built with Stone Age tools from available materials, their design, size, and appearance were varied to suit the many requirements of their users. Even today, canoes are based on these ancient ... see all copies from $6.82! new only from $9.42! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Table of Contents more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Oranges more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist First published in 1966 and now in the PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS series, this book gives both a history of humanity's love for the fruit and a wonderful picture of Florida, a state transformed from dreary barrenness to one vast orange grove by the world's insatiable demand for orange juice. see all copies from $4.74! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Founding Fish more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist The American shad--a species beloved of sportsmen since George Washington--provides the remarkable focus of this book, its every specimen carrying its autobiography within its scales and coursing through the water routes of U.S. political history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Levels of the game more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.88! new only from $4.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Crofter and the Laird more books like this by John A. McPhee add to wishlist When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors--Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland--a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The John McPhee Reader more books like this by John A McPhee add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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