John McPhee
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John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America (Loa #398): The Pine Barrens / Encounters with the Archdruid / The Survival of the Bark Canoe / Coming Into th
$45.00 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize winner takes you on unforgettable adventures to some of America’s most wild places in this deluxe collection of 4 classic books of nature writing
From legendary New Yorker writer John- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 159853842X
- Language: English
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They’re in the River (Picador Shorts)
$15.00 Add to cartA master chronicler of American life introduces us to the iconic and most curious American shad.
A pithy, humorous, and illuminating standalone extract from John McPhee’s twenty-sixth book, The Foundi- Series: Picador Shorts
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1250391288
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Read moreRising 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 forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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The Patch
$17.00 Read moreThe Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234883
- Language: English
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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
$19.00 Read moreTheodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass de
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0374515980
- Language: English
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Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
$18.00 Add to cartA 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,- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250335701
- Language: English
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Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives about a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
$19.00 Add to cartThe 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 ha
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0374514313
- Language: English
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In Suspect Terrain
$19.00 Read moreFrom the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the
- Series: Annals of the Former World #2
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 374517940
- Language: English
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The Crofter and the Laird
$18.00 Add to cartWhen 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, crofter
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0374514658
- Language: English
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Oranges
$18.00 Add to cartA classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually fou
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374512973
- Language: English
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The Founding Fish
$25.00 Read moreJohn 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 hu
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528837
- Language: English
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The Pine Barrens
$18.00 Read moreMost 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 parks,
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374514429
- Language: English
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
$18.00 Add to cartIn 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
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374516936
- Language: English
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
$18.00 Add to cartThe first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen.
When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were a- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526893
- Language: English
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Basin and Range
$19.00 Add to cartThe 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 hi
- Series: Annals of the Former World #1
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1982
- ISBN10: 374516901
- Language: English
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Levels of the Game
$17.00 Add to cartLevels 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 initi- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 1979
- ISBN10: 0374515263
- Language: English
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The Control of Nature
$19.00 Add to cartThe 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 t
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0374522596
- Language: English
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Assembling California
$20.00 Add to cartAt various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these tr
- Series: Annals of the Former World #4
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0374523932
- Language: English
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Coming Into the Country
$22.00 Add to cartComing 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
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0374522871
- Language: English
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Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
$28.00 Read moreA 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,- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 037460360X
- Language: English
