John McPhee
Birth date: March 08, 1931
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This was an interesting read more for a snapshot of the era. It was somewhat disheartening to see that the two sides are in some ways as intractable as in the 60s and 70s. Those that see resources as things to be used until they're exhausted and others who want resources left untouched.
John McPhee could write a prose poem about a pebble. Oh, he has. Monumental in scope and decades in the making, it covers all the science, humanity, and history of geology in one grand gesture. Dense and delightful at the same time most of the huge book takes place in the time that encompasses th...
This book is about people living in places where nature is in a state of constant change, and the extraordinary lengths they go to try to control the ultimately uncontrollable forces. It would be funny if it was fiction. A sheriff survives the inundation of his neighborhood by a massive debris slug ...
McPhee joins unusual cargo carriers as they transport huge quantities of goods from one point to another. He travels with a long-haul trucker delivering dangerous chemicals, hitches a ride on a mile-long coal train, lives aboard a river towboat that's longer than the Titanic, and spends time writing...
This book is about Alaska, at least circa 1976. Back then Alaska could boast a population of 400 thousand, of which 60 thousand were Native Americans. (As of 2011, Alaska's population had risen to 722,718.) Both then and now Anchorage boasted half the population. At the time Alaska became a state in...
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