TABLE OF CONTENTS

McPhee, John A.

ISBN 10: 0374272417 / ISBN 13: 9780374272418

Published by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, New York, 1985

About this Item

Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A collection of 8 essays, written between 1981 and 1984. Stated First Printing, 1985.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Seller Inventory # 46158

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374272417
• ISBN 13: 9780374272418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Science, Medicine & Natural History
  • misc sale
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Synopsis

In eight pieces of highly varying length written between 1981 and 1984, McPhee describes the arrival of telephones in a village near the Arctic Circle, the migrations to New Jersey of wild bears seeking a better life, a day with Senator Bill Bradley, and more

About the Author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.