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Coming into the Country

Author: John McPhee

Coming into the Country

Coming into the Country

$12.99

About This Book

To many Americans in the "Lower 48," Alaska seems almost a foreign country, and John McPhee's evocations of its people and its landscapes in no way alters that impression. McPhee gives us, as only he can, a vivid picture of the state's varied variegation and a feeling for its special identity.
Page Count
438
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On Sale
04/01/2011

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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 and ordering of events, brilliantly combined into an organic whole. In the course of this volume we are made acquainted with the lore and techniques of placer mining, the habits and legends of the barren-ground grizzly, the outlook of a young Athapaskan chief, and tales of the fortitude of settlers—ordinary people compelled by extraordinary dreams. Coming into the Country unites a vast region of America with one of America's notable literary craftsmen, singularly qualified to do justice to the scale and grandeur of the design.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374706074

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“It is a reviewer's greatest pleasure to ring the gong for a species of masterpiece.” —Edward Hoagland, The New York Times Book Review

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Coming into the Country

Coming into the Country

$12.99