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  • Coming into the Country

    di John McPhee ...
    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 ... Altre info

    11,01 €

  • Draft No. 4

    On the Writing Process

    di John McPhee ...
    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 McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers ... Altre info

    9,77 €

  • Levels of the Game

    di John McPhee ...
    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 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."This may be the ... Altre info

    9,25 €

  • Tennis

    di John McPhee ...
    Se c'è un libro in grado di dividere i lettori fra chi rischia di contrarre in una forma o nell'altra il morbo del tennis, e chi invece ne risulta immune, è questo. Dove si rivive, un punto dopo l'altro, la semifinale di Forest Hills 1968 fra Arthur Ashe e Clark Graebner – la prima disputata da un tennista nero agli albori dell'èra Open, ma anche e soprattutto la prima partita di tennis raccontata ... Altre info

    8,99 €

  • Encounters with the Archdruid

    Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies

    di John McPhee ...
    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, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard ... Altre info

    9,77 €

  • Coming into the Country

    Travels in Alaska

    di John McPhee ...
    'John McPhee is celebrated in America and all but unknown in this country. The volume I love most is Coming into the Country, an account of Alaska and the Alaskans. His genius is that he can write about anything.' - Robert Macfarlane In this unforgettable and astutely observed travel account, Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee journeys into the wild frontiers and frigid climate of Alaska - ... Altre info

    8,73 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • They're in the River (Picador Shorts)

    di John McPhee ...
    Serie series Picador Shorts
    **A 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 Founding Fish.**McPhee, himself a shad fisherman, recounts the fascinating life and ways of this great American wayfarer, most famous for its Odyssean journey as it leaves the ocean in crowds of millions, ... Altre info

    8,21 €

  • Tabula rasa

    Volume primo

    di John McPhee ...
    A una certa età ogni scrittore desidera essenzialmente una cosa: vuotare i propri cassetti, prima che lo faccia qualcun altro. Non sempre ne vale la pena, ma se i cassetti sono quelli di John McPhee, c’è il caso che contengano – be’, un nuovo, inimitabile, imprevedibile pezzo di John McPhee. ... Altre info

    1,99 €

  • In Suspect Terrain

    di John McPhee ...
    Serie eBook 2 - Annals of the Former World
    From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern collision of ideas about the origins ... Altre info

    9,77 €

  • Annals of the Former World

    di John McPhee ...
    Serie series Annals of the Former World
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion yearsTwenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists ... Altre info

    15,07 €

  • Rising from the Plains

    di John McPhee ...
    Serie eBook 3 - Annals of the Former World
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains.This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming.Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional ... Altre info

    9,77 €

  • The Patch

    di John McPhee ...
    The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. Part 1, “The Sporting Scene,” consists of pieces on fishing, football, golf, and lacrosse—from fly casting for chain pickerel in fall in New Hampshire to walking the linksland of St. Andrews at an Open Championship. Part 2, called “An Album Quilt,” is a ... Altre info

    9,25 €