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  • The Survival of the Bark Canoe

    di John McPhee ...
    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 technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of ... Altre info

    9,66 €

  • 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

    9,56 €

  • The Second John McPhee Reader

    di John McPhee ...
    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 books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World. ... Altre info

    12,26 €

  • Uncommon Carriers

    di John McPhee ...
    What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation.Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He ... Altre info

    9,56 €

  • The John McPhee Reader

    di John McPhee ...
    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, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one ... Altre info

    11,33 €

  • 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

    9,56 €

  • 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

    14,76 €

  • The Pine Barrens

    di John McPhee ...
    Most people think of the American state of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that sits just west of New York City. But in the centre of the state lies a vast wilderness – larger than most national parks – which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils ... Altre info

    8,73 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • 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

    9,14 €

  • 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

    11,12 €

  • 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 €

  • The Headmaster

    Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield

    di John McPhee ...
    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...created enduring schools through their own individual ... Altre info

    9,66 €