Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPheeRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 212 MBOverview: 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 […]
The Pine Barrens by John McPheeRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 236 MBOverview: Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine […]
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 by John McPheeRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 334 MBOverview: A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad […]
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 by John McPheeRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.0 MBOverview: A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad […]
La Place de la Concorde Suisse by John McPheeRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.2 MbOverview: Anyone who has ever traveled in Switzerland cannot help but to have remarked upon the overwhelming tranquility of the country. But this tranquility is illusory. As John McPhee writes in La Place de la Concorde Suisse, a rich journalistic study […]