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  • The John Mcphee Reader

    The John Mcphee Reader

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    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...
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  • The Second John Mcphee Reader

    The Second John Mcphee Reader

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    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...
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  • The Headmaster

    The Headmaster

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    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...
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  • Draft No. 4

    Draft No. 4

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    The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John...
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  • The Patch

    The Patch

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    The Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any bookThe Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction...
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  • Tabula Rasa | | 9781250335708

    Tabula Rasa

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    A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why.Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges,...
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  • The Princeton Anthology of Writing

    The Princeton Anthology of Writing

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    In 1957--long before colleges awarded degrees in creative nonfiction and back when newspaper writing's reputation was tainted by the fish it wrapped--Princeton began honoring talented literary...
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  • The Pine Barrens

    The Pine Barrens

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    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...
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  • The Princeton Reader | | 9780691143088

    The Princeton Reader

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    A collection of distinguished essays by some of today’s best nonfiction writers and journalistsFrom a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold...
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  • Irons in the Fire

    Irons in the Fire

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    This acclaimed collection of essays begins with the title essay and a trip to Nevada, where, in the company of a brand inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history.
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  • The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

    The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

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    This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the...
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  • La Place de la Concorde Suisse

    La Place de la Concorde Suisse

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    La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis...
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  • Rising from the Plains

    Rising from the Plains

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    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...
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  • A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

    A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

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    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.1. Thomas P. F. Hoving2. Euell...
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  • Levels of the Game

    Levels of the Game

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    Levels of the Game is John McPhee's astonishing account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968.It begins with the ball rising into the air for the...
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  • The Control of Nature

    The Control of Nature

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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 strageties and...
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  • Basin and Range

    Basin and Range

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    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...
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  • A Sense of Where You Are

    A Sense of Where You Are

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    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...
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  • Storycraft, Second Edition

    Storycraft, Second Edition

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    Jack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft...
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  • The Only Game in Town

    The Only Game in Town

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    For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine...
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