John Mcphee

Irons in the Fire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This acclaimed collection of essays begins with the title essay and a trip to Nevada, where, in the company of a brand inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 139mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780374525453
• ISBN-10: 0374525455
• Artikelnr.: 21134946

Autorenporträt

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 over 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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Irons in the Fire
2. Release
3. In the Virgin Forest
4. The Gravel Page
5. Duty of Care
6. Rinard at Manheim
7. Travels of the Rock