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(0)John McPhee
Author
Language
English
Description
McPhee's books are about real people in real places. Over the past eight years, McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. This is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. He attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Draft 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 definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work,...
13) Silk parachute
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ten essays cover a wide range of topics, including recollections of the author's youth and discussions of lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, weird foods he has been served, and a season in Europe.
14) The patch
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An "album quilt," an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book" --
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The differing contents of this book reflect the variety in the overall span of master observer McPhee's work. Irons in the Fire concerns catlle rustling in contemporary Nevada. The Gravel Page is about forensic geology--a science used to help solve major crimes and puzzles on an even greater scale. Rinard at Manheim is an experimental story about an auction of exotic cars. Items as unlikely as a virgin forest in central New Jersey and a mountain of...
18) Oranges
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1967]
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English
